At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
The recently hyped amoeba-flagellate Collodictyon has many secrets to tell about early eukaryotic evolution.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.
Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.
Research on an 18th and 19th century Finnish population suggests that agriculture and monogamy may not have stopped human evolution.
An anthropologist and a herpetologist join forces to reveal the complex shared evolutionary and ecological history of pythons and primates.
January 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Researchers use whole-genome sequencing to keep tabs on the development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.