The discovery of parasite life cycles
From Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe by iHeartPodcasts
May 7, 2026 · 59 min
About this episode
Daniel and Kelly explore the complex life cycles of parasites and the scientific journey to understand them.
Parasites can have amazingly complicated life cycles - moving through a series of host species, and looking quite different while residing within each type of host. Frankly, this stumped scientists for a long time. In today's episode, Daniel and Kelly take a stroll through the history of science to explore how we finally started to figure parasite life cycles out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Daniel, Kelly
Topics covered
- parasites
- life cycles
- science history
- host species
- scientific discovery
Keywords
- parasite life cycles
- host species
- scientific discovery
- history of science
- complicated life cycles
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