F RUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term ...

exist on both 'sides' of the deuterostome split 15,16; one branch includes echinoderms such as sea urchins and the other includes chordates such as fish and humans. Nevertheless, the steps through ...

One possibility is the requirement of a higher diversity of immune recognition capacities at an early stage of deuterostome evolution. Long-term coexistence between animals and microorganisms ...

I use an innovative interdisciplinary approach, combining cutting-edge imaging and modelling methods with palaeontological data, to decipher the fossil record of animal evolution. Current research is ...