We Evolved Something Else Instead
Humans are the only primates that run nearly naked under the sun. Here’s how this biological tradeoff reshaped…
Projected human land-use pressures and natural habitat conversion risk within global terrestrial protected areas
Protected Planet Report 2020 (UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, 2021). Pringle, R. M. Upgrading protected areas to conserve wild biodiversity.…
7 stunning discoveries from 2025 you should know
Scientific discovery rarely arrives in a single, dramatic moment. It usually emerges through careful experiments, revised equations, unexpected…
Meet The Only Snake Known To Cooperatively Hunt In Packs — A Herpetologist Explains
A rare discovery in a Cuban cave has rewritten what we thought we knew about reptile intelligence: the…
Study Warns of Major Toll ‘Chronic Stress’ Could Be Taking On Humans
Humans may be biologically unequipped to handle the relentless pace and pressures of modern life, a new study…
Meet The Tree That Produces The Only True Blue Fruit On The Planet. Hint: It’s Not Actually Blue
The quandong’s fruit appear intensely blue, but without producing any pigment at all. Here’s this blue fruit evolved…
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades
Raup, D. M. Biological extinction in Earth history. Science 231, 1528–1533 (1986). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Benton,…
SPAmix: a scalable, accurate, and universal analysis framework for large-scale genetic association studies in admixed populations | Genome Biology
Model residuals of linear regression and logistic regression Linear regression and logistic regression are regular models to fit…
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
Nesbitt, S. J. et al. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464, 95–98…
A novel gene expression stability metric to unveil homeostasis and regulation | Genome Biology
K-proportion and gene homeostasis Z-Index identify regulatory genes As cells of the same type and in the same…
Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks
Jones, K. E. et al. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 451, 990–993 (2008). Article CAS PubMed …
Incorporating additive genetic effects and linkage disequilibrium information to discover gene-environment interactions using BV-LDER-GE | Genome Biology
Model overview We consider the following model to incorporate both additive and interaction effects: $${Y}_{i}={\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{G}_{ji}{\beta }_{j}+{\sum }_{j=1}^{M}{S}_{ji}{\gamma…