Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology, Michael Russello has found that tortoise populations on a Galapagos island frequented by mariners contain hybrids representing two species now extinct on their home islands. Read More.
The Princeton Guide to Evolution, published in December 2013, is edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists including Hopi Hoekstra and editor-in-chief Jonathan Losos. This new...
L Mahadevan is co-creator of a mathematical model that has shed some light on how swarming bees stay warm in the cold and avoid getting too hot. The findings were published in the Journal of the Royal Society on December 11, 2013.
Hrdy Visiting Fellow in Conservation Biology Michael Russello has found that tortoise populations on a Galapagos island frequented by class="mariners" contain hybrids representing two species now extinct on their home islands.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has released a new short film, The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, featuring Jonathan Losos. Shot on location in the Caribbean, Losos demonstrates the traits that enable dozens of anole species to adapt to different vertical niches in the...
Charles Davis and Elena Kramer were among authors of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that solved the nearly 200-year-old mystery of how Rafflesia, the largest...
Cassie Stoddard, Junior Fellow in the Edwards Lab, was honored with a 2013 L’Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science. The program is a national initiative that annually recognizes and rewards five outstanding U.S.-based post-doctoral women researchers. ...
Cassandra Extavour led a ten-week program at the Kavli Institute last winter for scientists debating theories about what physical mechanisms originally drove single cells to unite for mutual benefit. Coverageofhertalk and the conference discussion was featured in...