2013

Work from the Extavour Lab shows mechanisms used to make embryonic germ cells in mammals and insects are more similar than previously thought. Read the original article in Current Biology .

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 reference work covers the major subjects and key concepts in...

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...

Andrew Knoll elected as a foreign fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.

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 flowering plants in the world, develop. The Rafflesia...

In a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, L. Mahadevan and colleagues detail the bizarre grisly mechanism that ticks use to attach to their victims and hold on while gorging themselves with blood. The work, which also includes a...

The National Science Foundation announced that L. Mahadevan as Associate Director of a new, multi-institutional science and technology center called the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines based at MIT.

L. Mahadevan helped develop a computational model that provides a mechanistic understanding of the formation of villi, the folded elaborations of the lining of the gut, essential for providing sufficient surface area for nutrient absorption. The paper...

Emily Jacobs-Palmer ( Hoekstra lab) wins Hamilton Prize for best student presentation at the 2013 Evolution Meetings held recently in Snowbird, UT for her work on the genetics of sperm morphology in deer mice.