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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

The discovery of parasite life cycles

5/7/202659 min

Parasites can have amazingly complicated life cycles - moving through a series of host species, and looking quite different while residing within each type of host. Frankly, this stumped scientists for a long time. In today's episode, Daniel and Kelly take a stroll through the history of science to explore how we finally started to figure parasite life cycles out.

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Clips

Unethical Human Experiment Revealed
Do parasite parents love babies?
Prize goes to wrong idea
Holy crow, giant worm
Castrated snail, tough love
Redi’s unexpected conclusion
Ignored first life-cycle proof
The jars that changed science

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

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