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How does a leopard get its spots and a zebra its stripes? What can the zombie apocalypse teach us about preventing the spread of disease? And what can we learn from a field full of sweaty grasshoppers? In this week鈥檚 show Adam is in conversation with mathematical biologist Dr. Thomas Woolley. Thomas, of Cardiff University鈥檚 School of Mathematics, uses mathematics to understand biological processes and the mechanisms by which genes create everything from human fingerprints to the rings in a lemur鈥檚 tale. Adam talks to Thomas about his career, his research as a mathematical biologist and his mathematical outreach to prisoners at HMP Cardiff and even to theatre audiences