Cohort Program Blog, Interviews and Other Writing

Craig Lowe, PI of the "Genetic basis of macroevolutionary trends," was interviewed for a BBC News article on human evolution.

Mangan, R. J. (Spring 2023). Our “Junk DNA” Is More Important Than We Once Thought. PBS Eons.

Almost two and half millions of years ago, the microscopic marine plankton species Globoconella puncticulata went extinct during a period of intense glacier formation across the Northern Hemisphere. Why did G. puncticulata go extinct when other ecologically similar species survived, including some to the present data? And what…