biology

"The marine environment is the cradle of a lot of vertebrates," said Liu, an assistant adjunct professor of integrative biology and an assistant curator in the UC Museum of Paleontology.

This "comprehensive reference map" now serves as a global standard for evaluating how accurately midbrain models match real human biology.

"This project gives a glimpse into a future where biology enables the sustainable production of valuable compounds and materials through advanced automation, data integration and computationally driven design," said Feist.

This new discovery turns that idea on its head and deepens the debate over one of biology's central mysteries: how and why genome size changes during the evolution of life.

Much subsequent sociology has run around this Weberian circuit, powered by new techniques such as quantitative modeling and evolutionary biology.