Evo Devo: Sharing genes for 3.5 billion years explores the emerging science of 鈥渆vo-devo鈥濃�攕hort for evolutionary and developmental biology鈥攚hich has revolutionized scientists鈥� understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. Since the first single-celled organisms developed on our planet millions of years ago, more than a billion species have evolved, thrived, gone extinct, and given way to other species.
"Evo-devo tries to understand a fundamental question鈥攈ow does evolution create new things? How does this force of nature, shaping life on the planet, work at fundamental levels?" (Dan Medeiros, a leading evo-devo researcher and Associate Professor of EBIO at the University of Colorado, 麻豆影院).
The exhibit explores the main ideas behind evo-devo, such as how genes act like switches to control the听form of听an organism as it develops. It explains connections this fundamental research has to our daily lives. It also highlights some of the key research that has contributed to this exciting听area of science鈥攆rom Darwin鈥檚 early ideas about natural selection, to today鈥檚 gene sequencing听and the .
This exhibit was produced through collaboration between the and the Museum of Natural History at the 麻豆影院 and was funded by the .
