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1: The True Cost of a Meat-eating Diet

• UN - Water and Food Security

2: Keystone Species

• The Keystone Species Concept That Transformed Ecology

3: Epigenetics

• Smithsonian - A Brief History of Twin Studies

4: Strange Reproduction: Parthonogenesis and Hermaphrodites

• National Geographic - Why Are These Male Fish Growing Eggs?
• Independent - Pesticides could wipe out frogs by turning them female

5: Cultural Evolution

• National Geographic - Becoming Jane Goodall

6: Sexual selection: How did the Peacock get his Tail?

• NHM - Alfred Russel Wallace
• New Scientist - Alfred Russel Wallace

7: Antibiotic Resistance

• BBC - Antibiotics
• The Conversation - Articles on Antibiotic alternatives

8: Bioremediation

• Understanding Evolution - How Endosymbiosis Changed Life on Earth

9: Conservation: Getting it Right

• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
• CGIAR - What are ecosystem services?

10: Mass Extinction

• Science News for Students - What killed the dinosaurs?

11: Selective Breeding: A Canine Catastrophe?

• Windows to the Universe - Evidence for Evolution

12: Genetic Engineering

• The Guardian - Human embryo gene editing
• Nature - Genome-edited baby claim provokes international outcry

13: Viral Diseases – Ebola

• WHO - Ebola

14: The Marvellous Tale of the Modified Mosquitoes

• WHO - Dengue and severe dengue

15: The Dawn of the New Antibiotic

• MRSA Action UK

16: Dangerous Drugs and Synthetic Organs

• FDA - The Drug Development Process

17: Influenza vs Humanity; the Fight Continues

• WHO - Immunisation

18: Magic Bullets – Monoclonal Antibodies in the Clinic

• Biology Discussion - Applications of Monoclonal Antibodies: 4 Applications