Plants Can Camouflage Too, and They’re Hiding from Us
Commercial harvesting of plants may have forced them to evolve to camouflage and evade humans.
Evolutionary Biology
What Can Evolution Teach us About the Viruses of the Future?
by Sam Berry
In 1918, a new influenza (flu) strain infected nearly a third of the world’s population, leaving tens of millions dead. At the time, relatively little was known about this strain, later called the Spanish Flu—why it was so dangerous, how…
Evidence of an Ancient Human Species Unearthed in the Philippines
In 2007, during an excavation on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, archeologist Armand Salvador Mijares discovered a 67,000-year-old foot bone that led scientists to rethink the history of human evolution. The bone had features resembling…
Could Woolly Mammoths Walk Again?
The Church lab at Harvard University recently announced plans to create a hybrid mammoth and elephant. Using a technology called CRISPR, researchers in the Church lab have learned how to insert mammoth DNA into the cells of modern elephants.…