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The Milner Centre for Evolution has three main objectives, to ask the big evolutionary questions, to find new technological and clinical applications, and to take evolutionary research out into the community.
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Aug 23, 2024
Aug 23, 2024
16 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tamás Székely about his latest scientific paper titled, The Evolution of Sex Roles: The Importance of Ecology and Social Environment, which has just been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
20 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Andrew Preston about his research into the group of organisms called Bordetella. The most prominent member of the Bordetella group is Pertussis which causes Whooping cough, a disease that is on the rise again.
Jul 24, 2024
Jul 24, 2024
9 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr Benjamin Padilla-Morales about the research paper he is first author on, and that has just been published in Nature Communications, titled: Sexual size dimorphism in mammals is associated with changes in the size of gene families related to brain development.
Jul 12, 2024
Jul 12, 2024
16 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Dr James Clark about his research into plant evolution.
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
29 min
Professor Turi King discusses the career of developmental geneticist Professor Dr Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and how her passion for genetic analysis led to her 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Jun 14, 2024
Jun 14, 2024
23 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Tiffany Taylor about her research which centres on three main and interlinking areas, experimental evolution, gene networks and bacterial defences.
May 30, 2024
May 30, 2024
14 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Associate Professor Stephanie Lo about her research into Pneumococcal diseases, the formulation of more effective vaccines and the impact those vaccines can have on reducing our reliance on antibiotics.
May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
25 min
The Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution, Professor Turi King, talks to Professor Laurence Hurst about his career, his research, and his passion for all things evolution.
