A key mechanistic hypothesis for the evolution of division of labour in social insects is that a shared set of genes co-opted from a common solitary ancestral ground plan (a genetic toolkit for ...

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A new study led by University of Maryland physicists sheds light on the cellular processes that regulate genes. Published in the journal Science Advances, the paper explains how the dynamics of a ...

A central biological question is how complex systems such as the brain evolve. The brain’s complexity is staggering: a fruit fly brain contains 50 million synaptic connections between 140,000 neurons, ...