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Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying behaviour shows pronounced variation in natural populations, making it a promising model to investigate the microevolution of a simple neural circuit.

Theoretical scenario for prebiotic polymers capable of nonenzymatic replication to acquire an early catalytic function, specifically cleavage activity.

Genetic analysis of Hippo pathway kinases in a close unicellular relative of animals suggests an ancestral role of this ancient pathway in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics and density of multicellular aggregates.

Amphibians, reptiles, and birds engage pyroptosis using caspase-1 and GSDMA, filling an evolutionary gap in which caspase-1 cleaves GSDME in fish and GSDMD in mammals.

Functional divergence of caspase 3 and 7 in vertebrate is mediated by key residue mutation.

Comparative neuroimaging quantifies the congruence of regional neuroanatomical sex differences between humans and mice.

SNP-editing of human embryonic stem cells reveals cell type specific function of a genetic variant associated with changes in human jaw shape.

An integrative approach allows investigations of the relationship between an initial plasticity and the subsequent adaptive evolution during rapid adaptive modification of complex systems in the wild.

Variation in the rate of alternative splicing across animals are mainly driven by differences in the rate of splicing errors.

A new high-resolution approach to probing tooth chemistry shows real potential to uncover changing rainfall patterns and environmental conditions during human prehistory.