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How Mutant Viral Swarms Spread Disease
...closely related viruses. This viral genetic jumble has given Marco Vignuzzi, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, a way to predict the future evolution of RNA viruses like...
An Explorer of Life’s Deepest Partnerships
...diversity can be good or bad. An evolutionary perspective might provide some balance. We need to understand evolutionary processes at different levels, such as between a host and its microbes,...
The Beasts That Keep the Beat
...and Aniruddh Patel were interested in the evolutionary origins and neuroscience of rhythm and music. At the time, there was no documented evidence that nonhuman animals could dance — or,...
Where Animals Come From
...that puts bacteria at the center of the story of animal life. “We were obliged to interact intimately with bacteria 600 million years ago,” said King, now an evolutionary biologist...
Breakthrough DNA Editor Born of Bacteria
...of viruses. “And then the whole thing clicked,” said Eugene Koonin. At the time, Koonin, an evolutionary biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Md., had been...
Why the Big Bang’s Light May Have a Tilt
...found to be true. “It’s not all that powerful to predict something you already know,” he said. Spectral measurements could also provide insight into the evolution of the universe at...
A New Step in Re-Creating First Life on Earth
...fastest. This technique, known as experimental evolution, or test-tube evolution, is an artificial version of natural selection. Researchers introduce a few new mutations after each round of the experiment. The...
Solution: ‘A Ticking Evolutionary Clock’
How to calculate when a gene’s rate of evolution will slow to a crawl. Carrie Arnold’s article, “Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales,” explored new research showing that genetic changes...
Why Did Life Move to Land? For the View
...The work has implications for the future evolution of human cognition. Perhaps one day we will be able to take the next evolutionary leap by overcoming what MacIver jokingly calls...