Genetics + Evolution w/ Itai Yanai

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Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This week I am talking with Itai Yanai, Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU.

We discuss Richard Dawkin’s book: The Selfish Gene, Darwin’s work with Evolution and Itai’s Podcast: The Night Science Podcast.

Throughout the conversation we dive into extended phenotypes, spandrels in genetics, and evolution of things like facial hair and tails. Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being.

https://night-science.org/
https://mindunderpod.com/pages/festival

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the show, special announcement before we get into this fantastic
0:06.4	episode, and this really is a good one. Feel like I've been on a bit of a streak lately,
0:11.2	just really, really terrific communicators of science. I think you're going to dig it.
0:18.5	I wanted to let you know that we have a special thing we've been putting together over
0:26.0	on my other world, Mind Under Matter, of me and Rameen Naser. We are doing a Mind Under Matter
0:35.1	camp out slash festival thing. What it is depends on how many people are interested and sign up
0:45.2	we're in the early stages of planning it, but I can tell you what we know so far. It's going to be
0:52.1	a mix of comedy and science communication and art and a collection of all the eclectic
1:00.9	individuals that listen to all of our podcasts. We'll do a live here. We are there. I'll get some
1:07.1	people from Duke to come out. If you want to hear more about it, even if you aren't a fan of
1:15.2	you haven't heard of, you'd be a fan if you have heard it, but if you haven't heard Mind Under Matter
1:23.3	or you aren't a regular listener, check out the St. Patrick's Day episode where we talk all about
1:29.8	it. It was inspired by an international Mind Under Matter day episode that we did. We had
1:38.0	some people reach out to us and things just started falling into place and we have this
1:44.1	amazing place that is like a big year retreat place with acres and acres, huge private lake,
1:55.5	everything else, incredible opportunity came up and we pretty much get to make it whatever we want
2:04.0	can be anywhere from a 50 person camp out and intimate way to meet Ramina and other listeners of
2:12.7	our shows, which already looks like we're going to be doing something bigger than that. But
2:24.4	scaling up to as many, there's room for a thousand people to come and camp out. It's going to be a
2:30.8	thing where you're allowed to, where you're able to camp out. It'll be a three day event, Friday
2:36.6	through Sunday, where you can stay till Monday if you want. You don't have to stay all of the days.
2:43.2	There's going to be a special thing on Thursday, a special bonus option potentially. So maybe
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