This Week in Evolution
This Week in Evolution is a podcast on the biology of what makes us tick. Hosts Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello take you through the new evolution that has been revolutionized by the field of genomics and molecular biol...
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- 🇺🇸United States · Natural SciencesHOME#10814K to 74K
- 🇯🇵Japan · Natural Sciences#167.4K to 39K
- 🇰🇷South Korea · Natural Sciences#243.4K to 18K
- 🇧🇷Brazil · Natural Sciences#701.9K to 10K
- 🇦🇷AR · Natural Sciences#271.4K to 7.6K
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36K to 191K🎙 Daily cadence·100 episodes·Last published 2w ago - Monthly Reach
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120K to 636K🇺🇸39%🇯🇵21%🇰🇷9%+17 more - Active Followers
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66K to 350K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/6/26 | TWiEVO 130: The Stickleback Shuffle | Nels and Vincent explain a study showing unique site-specific and shared habitat-level adaptation in a classic system of repeated evolution, stickleback fish. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Shared and site-specific adaptation in stickleback fish (PNAS) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Wynton Marsalis on Playing When Nobody Is Listening Vincent – With US measles deaths on the rise, local officials are stepping in where RFK Jr won't Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 14m 17s | ||||||
| 8/31/26 | TWiEVO 129: How avocados do it | Nels and Vincent discuss the finding that balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server A transcription protein underlies daily sex alteration in avocado (PNAS) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Hypothesis fund and Pretty Viruses Project on iNaturalist Vincent – Hot Tuna – Water Song | Live at 4 6th Street Rock Palace (1973) Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 27m 12s | ||||||
| 7/23/26 | synthetic cellgrowth+3 | — | MicrobeTVbioRxiv+2 | — | synthetic cellgrowth+3 | — | 1h 18m 17s | ||
| 7/23/26 | molecular mimicryplant immune receptor+3 | — | Plug-in solarMicrobeTV+1 | — | molecular mimicryplant immune receptor+3 | — | 1h 16m 42s | ||
| 6/1/26 | DNA mutationgenetic destiny+3 | Roxanne Khamsi | Beyond Inheritance | — | DNAmutation+4 | — | 1h 27m 33s | ||
| 4/26/26 | embryogenesisgene expression+3 | — | MicrobeTVEvolutionary landscapes of zygotic genome activation across animals | — | transcriptomic atlasearly embryogenesis+3 | — | 52m 59s | ||
| 3/19/26 | RNAribozyme+4 | — | University of IllinoisMicrobeTV+2 | — | ribozymeRNA+5 | — | 1h 18m 15s | ||
| 3/19/26 | stinkbugsfungus+3 | — | MicrobeTVDefensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | — | stinkbugfungus+5 | — | 1h 21m 37s | ||
| 2/2/26 | evolutionselfishness+3 | — | MicrobeTVNat Ecol Evol+4 | — | selfishnessevolution+5 | — | 1h 15m 21s | ||
| 1/8/26 | AIviruses+4 | — | NIHThe Office of Science and Technology Policy+3 | — | AIbacteriophage+6 | — | 1h 42m 23s | ||
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| 1/8/26 | retrovirusswordtail fish+4 | — | NIHBaylor College of Medicine+4 | — | retrovirusswordtail fish+5 | — | 1h 46m 18s | ||
| 11/4/25 | life expectancysexual selection+3 | — | NIHMicrobeTV+2 | — | life expectancygender differences+5 | — | 1h 21m 15s | ||
| 10/14/25 | evolutionspecies+4 | — | GoogleNYU+2 | Boundary Waters | evolutionspecies+6 | — | 1h 49m 08s | ||
| 8/20/25 | evolutionary constraintscoronavirus+4 | — | NIHMicrobeTV+1 | — | evolutioncoronavirus+5 | — | 1h 38m 13s | ||
| 7/23/25 | TWiEVO 116: An ant and two fungi walk into a bar and meet a naked mole rat | Nels and Vincent review research on how neuropeptides influence the behavior of leafcutter ants, and regulate the different caste behaviors such as defenders, leaf foragers, brood care, and fungus farming. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Neuropeptides and behavior of leaf cutter ants (Cell) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – My academic job offer was rescinded. I'll keep going—but U.S. researchers are running out of road Vincent – There's a new acid in our rain — should we be worried? Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 57m 23s | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | TWiEVO 115: Even the archaea are going viral | Nels and Vincent discuss an ultra reduced archaeal genome, the closest cellular entity to date that approaches a viral strategy of existence. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Ultra-reduced archaeal genome (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – The Bethesda Declaration Vincent – US to Drop Guidance to Limit Alcohol to One or Two Drinks Per Day, Sources Say Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 28m 58s | ||||||
| 5/21/25 | TWiEVO 114: The best experiments ever done | Nels and Vincent review the properties of Mendel's pea genes through the lens of modern genetic analysis. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Insights into Mendel's pea genes (Nature) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Evolution related game Vincent – Should Unvaccinated Patients Get Organ Transplants? Ethicist Weighs In Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 31m 54s | ||||||
| 4/23/25 | TWiEVO 113: A wolf in wolf's clothing | Nels and Vincent explain the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Evolution and ancestry of dire wolf (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Navigating to the forefront of innovation: A celebration of immigrant scientists Vincent – Exclusive: a Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 27m 05s | ||||||
| 3/26/25 | TWiEVO 112: Sex-Z cephalopods | Nels and Vincent explain the ancient evolutionary origin of sex in cephalopods. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Evolution of sex in cephalopods (Current Biol) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Speaking into a microphone? Your audio quality can impact the way people view you Vincent – Remedy Supported by Kennedy Leaves Some Measles Patients More Ill Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 27m 25s | ||||||
| 2/26/25 | TWiEVO 111: Copy that, genome | Nels and Vincent explain how template switching during DNA replication is a widespread source of adaptive gene amplification. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Template switching and gene amplification (eLife) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Jeremy Berg on Bluesky – jeremymberg.bsky.social Vincent – Dickson Despommier, 84 Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 26m 51s | ||||||
| 1/22/25 | TWiEVO 110: Ants go from carpenters to surgeons | Nels and Vincent reveal that worker ants amputate their colleagues injured leg to prevent infections. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Wound-dependent leg amputation in ants (Curr Biol) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – The Science Bridge Vincent – US withdraws from WHO Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 23m 57s | ||||||
| 12/31/24 | TWiEVO 109: On the origins of orange | Nels and Vincent discuss the molecular and genetic origins of sex-linked orange coat color in cats. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Orange coat color in cats (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – AI takes up science podcasting Vincent – Humans evolved for distance running – but ancestor 'Lucy' didn't go far or fast Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 16m 01s | ||||||
| 11/20/24 | TWiEVO 108: A virus in every parasite | Nels and Vincent review the identification of a novel virus associated with the pathogen Plasmodium knowlsei and which is part part of a diverse and unclassified viral taxon. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Virus associated with P. knowlsei (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – The peace of wild things, poem by Wendell Berry Vincent – All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 18m 42s | ||||||
| 10/30/24 | TWiEVO 107: One small step for cells, one giant step for cell kind | Nels and Vincent discuss the origins of eukaryotes, with contributions from at least 3 bacteria (alphaproteobacteria) and a large contribution from DNA viruses with large genomes. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Complex symbiotic interactions during eukaryogenesis (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Pathoplexus.org Vincent – Can science cure its addiction to plastic? Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 32m 29s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 | TWiEVO 106: What's old immunity is new again | Nels and Vincent explain how homology searches of anti-phage systems in eukaryotic genomes can be used to discover proteins of the human immune system. Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiEVO Links for this episode Join the MicrobeTV Discord server Human antiviral effectors from antiphage systems (Cell Host Micro) Timestamps by Jolene Science Picks Nels – Pathoplexus.org Vincent – Can science cure its addiction to plastic? Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles Send your evolution questions and comments to [email protected] | 1h 28m 49s | ||||||
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Chart history for This Week in Evolution
Peaked at #16 in Japan, currently #16 in Japan.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| GR | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| South Korea | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| AR | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| TH | — | #29 | #29 | — |
| PE | — | #46 | #46 | — |
| IL | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| CO | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| Denmark | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| Norway | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| Finland | — | #62 | #62 | — |
| PT | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| HU | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| Brazil | — | #70 | #70 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #93 | #93 | — |
| Sweden | — | #99 | #99 | — |
| CH | — | #105 | #105 | — |
| United States | — | #108 | #108 | — |
| Germany | — | #109 | #109 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #111 | #111 | — |
Chart Positions
34 placements across 32 markets.
Chart Positions
34 placements across 32 markets.