Think Like a Scientist: Natural Selection in an Outbreak

An outline map depicts Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Caption: it moved over into neighboring Liberia

The tragic 2013-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shocked the world. Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and disease ecologist Lina Moses explain the science behind how this event became the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Part of the “Think Like a Scientist” series.

(Source: DCMP)

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  • Think Like a Scientist: Natural Selection in an Outbreak

    Type:
    Video
    Format:
    Streaming
    Accommodations:
    English Captions - Auditory, English Audio Descriptions - Visual
    Languages:
    English
    License:
    DCMP Membership
    Author:
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute
    Length:
    7 minutes