Reconstructing human mobility patterns using historical period genomes illustrates how the Roman Empire’s military and economic activities catalyzed an era of transient movement against the backdrop of generations-long prehistoric migrations.

For many bacterial species, recombination dominates genome evolution and phylogenetic patterns that have so far been assumed to reflect clonal relationships, in fact reflect variation in recombination rates across lineages.

Gene flow analysis reveals that the genomes of most sub-Saharan populations are the result of recent historical admixture events.

Product release from human lysozyme is mediated by an intermediate state with transient weak interactions between the product and enzyme.

Mathematical modeling shows that local populations of the malaria parasite self-organize into a limited number of transient but distinct strains through competition for hosts in immunity space.

Random sequence RNA pools display an innate capacity for ligation and recombination, enabling them to “bootstrap” themselves towards higher compositional, informational and structural complexity.

Brain asymmetry in cortical surface area shows lifespan stability from early childhood to old age and is more underpinned by genetic differences, whereas asymmetry in cortical thickness grows through childhood and adolescence and is minimally explained by genetics.

Analyses of longitudinal neuroimaging data highlight the importance of social contact for brain health.

A mathematical model that combines stochasticity and spatial structure describes the dynamics of the viral population during an infection cycle, and fitting the model to RNA and virus abundances over time shows that poliovirus follows a geometric replication mode.

Variation in migration can evolve rapidly and traits that comprise this behaviour may be determined by standing variation at a few regulatory regions that are not common across taxonomic groups.