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	Podcast:		The Life Scientific
	Episode:		Rebecca Kilner on beetle behaviours and evolution
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:28:54
	Publish Date:		2023-01-24 09:30:00
	Description:		A fur-stripped mouse carcase might not sound like the cosiest of homes – but that’s where the burying beetle makes its nest; and where Rebecca Kilner has focused much of her research. A Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Cambridge, Rebecca’s work – initially with cuckoos, then more recently with the beetles – has shed invaluable light on the relationship between social behaviours and evolution. She tells Jim Al-Khalili how the beetles’ helpfully swift generational churn and mouse-based parenting has allowed her team to study evolution in action, demonstrating for the first time what was previously just evolutionary theory. Producer: Lucy Taylor
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