Understanding how anatomical structures evolve requires disentangling the roles of integration and modularity in shaping morphological variation. The vertebral column, a serially repeated and regional...

Birding Polokwane - one of the highlights of this leg This first blog post covers the part of our trip before we arrived in Kruger. I arrive...

The relative influence of developmental bias and natural selection on evolutionary outcomes remains a central, unresolved question in evolutionary biology. Here, we combine large-scale phylogenetic tr...

Each summer since 1893, a small group of scientists from around the world have convened at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA, to work on the most exciting model ...

African cichlids comprise more than 1800 species of freshwater fishes, with remarkable adaptive radiations in Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi, and Victoria that have given rise to extraordinary morphological...

Vertebrates have evolved great diversity in the number of segments dividing the trunk body, however the developmental origin of the evolvability of this trait is poorly understood. The number of segme...