Evolution Research

Evolution research

Although the famous statement that "nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution" does not quite imply that "everything in biology does make sense in light of evoution", making sense of evolution remains perhaps the core issue in biology. In addition to the more ecological work by Eric Sodja and Patrick Talley described above, our new directions are taking a more mechanistic view, with biology graduate student Hyrum Diesen thinking about how the structure of cells and genomes evolves to remain robust in a changing and unpredictable world. See selected evolution papers here