What can a common flower teach us about evolutionary biology? Well it turns out the incredibly diverse columbine flower is a great model organism and youtuber/grad student Molly takes us on a journey to learn more.

Suggested Reading:

Paper about developing Aquilegia (columbine flowers) as a model for evo-devo: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/8519267

Youtube episode of Science IRL that covers columbine flowers and plant evo-devo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8pxOJ8RlI

Youtube episode of Science IRL about GMOs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b_Un-lGSWo

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Follow Molly Edwards: @science_irl

Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro

Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing