Editor's choice in developmental biology
The more closely related two species are, the more they're apt to drive one another to extinction
University College London researcher Mike Taylor recounts the discovery of a new dinosaur with unusually powerful thigh muscles. Read the full story.
Is DNA damage an inevitable consequence of epigenetic reprogramming?
Postdoc forced to leave position after questioning the reproducibility of advisor's data
The evolution of bold warning coloration in mammals
In Chapter 9, "We Were Hunted, Which is Why All of Us are Afraid Some of the Time and Some of Us are Afraid All of the Time," author Rob Dunn explains how predators shaped our evolution as we cowered and ran from their ravenous maws.
Whose well-being is threatened by our changing relationship with the myriad organisms that shaped the evolution of our species?
This Monday (May 23), which happens to be the birthday of famed naturalist and species namer extraordinaire Carolus Linnaeus, researchers at Arizona State University listed their picks of the top 10 newly-described species of 2010. Without further