Today in the Academic Minute, Marla Sokolowski, professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto, looks at the genes of both species and finds a link that could help control obesity for us all. And if you missed Monday's Academic Minute, about whether liver transplant recipients should be determined by geography, please click here.

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