RINGBACK You are listening to crowd science the show that travels the world to find answers to your science queries on money Chesterton this week I want to tell you a story about our genes the nature of evolution and an idea that biologists have been arguing about for decades if not centuries. RINGBACK RINGBACK RINGBACK Back in 859 Charles Darwin published a book on the Origin of Species in it he set out the basis of evolution by natural selection this idea is that every species on earth evolves because there are randomly occurring variations within populations and some of these offer a better chance of survival it s a harsh old world and you only get to pass on your particular variations if you live long enough to reproduce a key point is that it s random and in your d.n.a. . The code you pass on is unaffected by what happens during your life is that d.n.a. Has its own instructions could be epi genome which tell genes how to behave that can be affected by our environment so does it o
Hello and welcome to the scholar circle scholar circle dot org I m Maria are moody and in this our discoveries are challenging what we learned in our biology class about what makes us male or female then what is the celebrity industrial complex and how does it impact our democracy our culture and our society textbook biology teaches us about how our x. And y. Chromosomes determine our sex but scientists say it s more complicated than previously understood Melissa Wilson Center is joins us she is a fellow at the Center for theoretical evolutionary Genoa makes at the University of California Berkeley germinates ins also joins us he is a research investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of molecular biology and genetics neuroscience and ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine welcome Jeremy Nathans and welcome Melissa Wilson sayers great to have you here on this color circle both of your studies looked like it was turning a little bit of textbook biolog
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