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Setting up a frog colony and pair bonding with Lauren O’Connell
To become a scientist, O’Connell first needed to leave the family farm.
By
Brady Huggett
1 March 2024 | 1 min read
Lauren O’Connell is assistant professor of biology at Stanford University. In this episode of “Synaptic,” O’Connell talks about observing wolf spiders in the wild and how the concept of evolution reset her brain.
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