Interview with Robert Sapolsky
Nov 11, 2019
Interview with Robert Sapolsky, professor at the University of Stanford (USA), in which he talks biology issues of the present time.
Etiqueta: biology
Interview with Angela Saini
Sep 04, 2019
Interview with Angela Saini, scientific journalist (United Kingdom) and author of the book Inferior (2017).
How is the moulting of insects and reptiles different?
Aug 26, 2019
Both insects and reptiles moult. However, there are some differences between both groups. Professor Jesús Selfa Arlandis explains.
Interview with Hanna Kokko
Apr 05, 2019
Interview with Hanna Kokko, full professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich.
Natural enemies and biodiversity
Aug 07, 2018
Natural enemies are a fundamental piece of food webs and can contribute to biodiversity preservation. However, they can often produce dramatic losses, especially when humans are involved.
Rethinking conservation
Aug 07, 2018
Between the mid-1980s and the present day, conservation biology split into two almost independent fields: management ecology and conservation ecology. We have witnessed the recovery of large endangered species and a decrease in small and common species.
What do we mean by diversity?
Aug 05, 2018
The concept of biological diversity has evolved from a simple count of species to more sophisticated measures that are sensitive to relative abundances and even to evolutionary divergence times between species. In the course of this evolution, diversity measures have often been borrowed from other disciplines.
Interview with Robert Trivers
Aug 03, 2018
We talk to the expert sociobiologist awarded with the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
Thou shalt not take the name of biology in vain
Jun 27, 2018
Biology has been and still is used to justify discriminatory practices against groups of people, but reality is always more passionately complex than the dualistic human logic is willing to accept.
The evolution of cooperation, or the history of life in this planet
Jun 11, 2018
From the simplest of cells to the first bands of hominids treading on two legs across the African savannah, the history of life in this planet is based on cooperation.