How do diseases spread from animals to humans? Is it possible to forecast where disease outbreaks will occur and when they will blow up into major health crises? In one of the earliest episodes of Big Biology, Marty and Art talk to Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, about her research on zoonotic disease, how we track the spread of infectious diseases and whether we'll ever be able to predict outbreaks.
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Hot wings: How birds stay cool under the Australian sun (Ep 55)
And the Oskar goes to: Germ-soma differentiation in insects (Ep 54)
Turn down the lights: The ecological effects of bright nights (Ep 53)
Coronavirus III: Town Hall (Ep 52)
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and Contingency (Ep 51)
Big Blue: How whales evolved to become ocean titans (Ep 50)
The Vital Question: The Chemistry of Early Life (Ep 49)
An 8-legged Bite: The Evolution of Venom in Spiders and Beyond (Ep 48)
The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
Smarthropods: Cognition in Insects (Ep 46)
CROSSOVER: On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Complexity podcast from the Santa Fe Institute)
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