Evolutionary biology

An important goal in the study of protein evolution is understanding which genetic changes that fixed in nature were selected for and why. However, understanding the functional consequence of any given mutation is a challenge because the effects of amino-acid changes are highly …

A fundamental pattern of biodiversity is that it is unevenly distributed across the tree of life, both in terms of species richness and morphological disparity. Understanding the relationship between species richness and morphological disparity, therefore, is a central goal of e…

It is in the nature of humans to wonder about and try to make sense off everything they see and all things they encounter. Humans have always been observing, describing, and recording patterns in the world around them. Particularly since Darwin's On the Origin of Species, resear…