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Geneticist Awarded Nobel Prize for Studies of Extinct Human Ancestors
Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA. The geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo has won this year’s...
How Genes Can Leap From Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar
...the world, the scientists reported in April in a paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution that this gene has somehow traveled from snakes to frogs at least 50 times all...
She Finds Keys to Ecology in Cells That Steal From Others
...organisms that eat their neighbors to get ahead. But in the systems studied by the theoretical ecologist Holly Moeller, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology at the...
Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike
A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in...
How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates
...the evolutionary genomicist José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta assembled a diverse international team of genomics researchers and evolutionary developmental biologists. A team was needed partly because the first step would be to...
Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis
...to an adult brain, the new study provides clues to how evolution made the development of these insects take such a wild detour. “It’s a monumental piece,” said Bertram Gerber,...
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond
...organ. How these cells are distributed and are related to one another suggests many intriguing ideas about the evolution of the mammalian brain. Last month, in another landmark contribution to...
A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity
...when those identities are not well represented,” explained Extavour, an evolutionary geneticist who in 2014 became the first Black woman to win tenure in the biological sciences at Harvard’s Faculty...
Solution: ‘Are Genes Selfish or Cooperative?’
...considered. As I said before, evolution is ruthlessly, incorruptibly meritocratic. If such phenomena exist, they do so because they are either evolutionarily neutral, or perhaps possess other advantages for the...