A Casual Conversation About Science

Video Channel: PZ Myers

I intend to be prepared to talk about these subjects:

http://www.quantamagazine.org/can-ne...
Can new species evolve from cancers?

http://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ma...
How Many Genes Do Cells Need? Maybe Almost All of Them

http://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology

http://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Developing an integrated understanding of the evolution of arthropod segmentation using fossils and evo-devo


I don't think it will be possible to address them all! I'll get as far as I get, with a willingness to be distracted by questions from the peanut gallery. Who knows? I might only get to the first article.