Tracking Transition: From dinosaurs to birds, brain-skull evolution
New discovery in skull and brain development has implications for greater understanding of evolution of reptiles and birds.
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Posts From Sarah Adams
Spiny Slugs: New fossil discovery sheds light on mollusk evolution
Discovery of a slug-like organism called Calvipilosa, literally meaning “hairy scalp”, leads to new knowledge of what the earliest common ancestor of mollusks would have looked like.
Undergraduate Profile Dan McQuaid (ES ‘18): A Passion for Cancer Research
Growing up in the suburbs of NYC in Ossining, New York, current Yale junior Dan McQuaid always had a personal relationship with cancer, the focus of his interests and research. A few members of his close family were diagnosed with
Book Review: I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong dives headfirst into the complex symbioses microbes have with humans and beyond, how these interactions can help and harm us, and the wonder and beauty of the relationships themselves.
Book Review: The Genius of Birds
Birds are “bird-brained” no more–in her new book, Jennifer Ackerman explores research on the cognitive science of birds that has exploded in the past two decades to yield new understandings of bird intelligence and our own.
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