Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate
Anthony, M. A., Bender, S. F. & van der Heijden, M. G. A. Enumerating soil biodiversity. Proc. Natl…
Humans Are Born With a Biological Blueprint for Music
Summary: For the last century, music was largely viewed as a cultural invention—a “luxury” of human civilization. However,…
Emma Johnston (1973–2025) | Nature Ecology & Evolution
Additional information K.A.D. is a marine ecologist who was mentored by Emma as an undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral…
Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature
Study area In Peru, the study was carried out along an elevational gradient from 245 masl to the tree…
Human pressure and biodiversity modify forest resilience after extreme multi-year droughts
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Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
Nguyen, E. et al. Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo. Science 386, eado9336…
Why Don’t Humans Have A Mating Season? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired our reproduction by…
Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom
Laughlin, S. B. The metabolic cost of information—a fundamental factor in visual ecology. In Ecology of Sensing (eds…
Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
Bell, P. R. Standardized terminology and potential taxonomic utility for hadrosaurid skin impressions: a case study for Saurolophus…
Anthropologists Still Can’t Agree On The Answer
The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s…
Parents might age faster or slower based on how many kids they have
Numerous factors affect how fast we age, from the environment down to our DNA. Even the number of…
Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates
Lerch, B. A. & Servedio, M. R. Same-sex sexual behaviour and selection for indiscriminate mating. Nat. Ecol. Evol.…