Department of Biology
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The University of Kansas
Sex and the struggle within: How sexual reproduction releases conflict within the genome
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Edward P. Bass Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
On the nature of tradeoffs
Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Ed Yong, Science Writer
The Atlantic
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. They build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities.
Assistant Professor
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology, Duke University
How social interactions shape the genome
John Franklin Crowell Professor
Department of Biology, Duke University
Mechanistic models of metabolic diseases help explain why disease genes are maintained in populations
Department of Biology, Duke University
Mechanistic models of metabolic diseases help explain why disease genes are maintained in populations
Research Biologist, Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Why mammal meat is bad for humans (and only humans)
Eating red meat (meat from other mammals) increases our risk for cancer, and for several other diseases resulting from chronic inflammation. This is uniquely true for humans, among all species on earth, and it results from uniquely human quirks of evolution and biochemistry. I’ll explain this.
Dr. Pepper received his Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Colorado Denver
The good, the bad, and the maladapted: Prenatal environmental sensitivity in light of evolutionarily novel environments
Humans, like other organisms, have evolved to be sensitive to environmental exposures in early life. One system that is particularly sensitive to early environmental contexts is the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA)-axis, an evolutionarily conserved system that organizes an organism’s response to stress.