The neural survival mechanism that prioritizes water over food when the chips are down…
Andrew Moore
Editor-in-Chief, Bioessays
Can we Become Better Parents by Studying Animals?
The brains of mice and humans are more similar than we’d think when it comes to parenting…
How sterile workers still manage to pass on “their” genes and evolve!
In their hypothesis article in BioEssays, Downing et al. present a testable hypothesis as to why sterile worker castes evolve, and continue to evolve, in many social insect orders: a hypothesis with implications for understanding longevity in general.
Genes evolving in parallel to produce the same traits – less of a mystery
In their review in BioEssays, Bailey et al. present a model of a process that occurs more often than we’d suspect: identical genetic changes in evolutionarily unrelated populations.