Benjamin de Bivort
Professor in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Brain Science at Harvard who researches genetics, evolution, and behavior and served as the episode's expert guest.
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Apr 9, 2026 • 1h 17min
Listener Questions #35: Genetics (featuring Dr. Benjamin de Bivort)
Dr. Benjamin de Bivort, a Harvard professor studying genetics, evolution and behavior, joins to tackle how DNA relates to instinct. They explore what it means to “decode” a genome. Conversations range from protein folding and AlphaFold to fruit fly behavior experiments, telomeres and viral DNA, and why genes shape but do not fully determine behavior.
