Tag: Hopi E. Hoekstra

  • Campus & Community

    A pioneering geneticist and Renaissance man of parts

    Colleagues and friends remember Richard Lewontin as whip-smart, a fierce debater, and an engaged and loyal mentor and friend.

    7 minutes
    Dick Lewontin.
  • Health

    Sperm competition, cooperation

    Some mouse sperm can discriminate between their brethren and the competing sperm from other males, showing an unusual behavioral complexity.

    3 minutes
  • Health

    Venomous bite

    Biologists have shown that independent but similar molecular changes turned a harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two unrelated species — a shrew and a lizard, giving each a venomous bite

    3 minutes