Finalists from the 2022 Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research discuss The Ape Research Index. Note: PLOS is delighted to…
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Biology Ape Research Index (ARI): Quantifying the effect of previous experience in research tasks on cognitive skills in captive chimpanzeesRead more
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: ecosystem evolution of the first animalsRead more
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Emily Mitchell discusses the value of getting undergraduate students involved in research projects. Our new…
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Biology Speciation: a Few Big Genes or Many Little Ones?Read more
by Simon Martin, Richard Merrill and Chris Jiggins NOTE: This blog post has been substantially abridged and edited by PLOS…
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Announcement The GIGA Collection: Invertebrates Galore!Read more
by Gert Wörheide Much of the world’s biodiversity to have evolved over the last 600+ million years of the Earth’s…
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Biology The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca — origins of multicellularityRead more
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions…
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel TherapiesRead more
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – JulyRead more
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – JuneRead more
June has been a busy month at PLOS Biology and this month we’ve covered a whole spectrum of Biology from…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – MarchRead more
March has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology with lots of research hitting the press. A selection of our top…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – FebruaryRead more
PLOS Biology has something for everyone this month with a wide range of biological research hitting the press. February saw studies…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – JanuaryRead more
Welcome to the first PLOS Biology media blog of 2018! We’re starting the year with a bang, with research on marine…
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Biology Biggest Hits – PLOS Biology in the Media in 2017Read more
We’re taking a look back at the articles that have made a splash in the last 12 months, both in terms…