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  • Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity

    September 11, 2009 · 0 min

    Michael Donoghue delivers the keynote address, “Charles Darwin, the Tree of Life, and the Future of Biodiversity,” for the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates Lecture. His focus is on Darwin's ideas of how all living things are…

  • Found: Missing link in Origin of Scorpion Claws

    April 8, 2009 · 10 min

    Derek Briggs, Director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, talks about a unique fossil find — a missing link in understanding the evolution of arthropod claws.

  • Stemming the Onslaught

    January 12, 2009 · 11 min

    Yale's Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar is making fundamental discoveries about plants' defenses against pathogens.

  • Birds as Living Dinosaurs

    January 7, 2009 · 0 min

    Richard O.Prum,Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discusses the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs.

  • Plants That Reproduce Rapidly Evolve Rapidly

    October 3, 2008 · 17 min

    Michael Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Stephen Smith discuss the dynamics of plant evolution.

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  • Extinct May Not Be Forever For Galapagos Tortoises

    September 22, 2008 · 9 min

    Gisella Caccone and Jeffrey Powell, faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale discuss finding genetic traces of giant Galapagos tortoise species, thought to be extinct more than 150 years ago, living in the wild.

  • Catching Cells in the Act

    September 4, 2008 · 0 min

    Tom Pollard has spent a lifetime understanding how cells move and divide. Pollard talks about how new tools are enabling biologists to get a deeper understanding of fundamental biological functions.

  • It's a Unisex Brain with Specific Signals that Trigger Male Behavior

    August 1, 2008 · 5 min

    Dylan Clyne, a postdoctoral fellow who conducted research in the Department of Cell Biology discusses functional mapping of brain circuits that control sexual behavior in fruit flies.

  • It's Not Easy Being a Frog

    August 22, 2007 · 10 min

    It's Not Easy Being a Frog

  • (Pt.3) Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery

    August 15, 2007 · 10 min

    Lisa Curran, Professor, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences and Recent MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient delivers a talk on Global change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery.

  • (Pt.2) Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery

    August 15, 2007 · 14 min

    Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe Yale Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology speaks about "Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery" at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.

  • (Pt.1) Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery

    August 15, 2007 · 0 min

    Michael Donoghue, Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, delivers a talk entitled "Global Change, Extinctions and the New Age of Discovery" at the Yale Tomorrow campaign launch.

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About the show

This collection features Yale faculty and distinguished guests speaking about topics within the study of biology: Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry.