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Noah Whiteman

Noah Whiteman is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a professor of integrative biology and of molecular and cell biology. At Berkeley, he is also affiliated with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Center for Computational Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Jepson and University Herbaria, and Essig Museum of Entomology. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 to write Most Delicious Poison and lives in Oakland.

The Stench of Death Has a Sunny Side

Chemicals of decomposition are also starting points of life.

October 27, 2023