It Takes a Village: A Paleoanthropologist's Journey Leads to Community
For nearly two decades, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale, curator at the Yale Peabody Museum, and YIBS affiliate, Jessica Thompson has investigated the history of...
Joint Mobility as a Bridge Between Form and Function
In a recent article published by the Journal of Experimental Biology, Armita Manafzadeh (YIBS Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate) examines how joints enable nearly all...
A Pair of Lizard ‘Kings’ from the Old, Old West
Yale researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of the lizard crown group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives. The two...
An Ecological Rule Breaker Shows the Effects of Climate Change on Body Size
The Northern Treeshrew, a small, bushy-tailed mammal native to South and Southeast Asia, defies two of the most widely tested ecological “rules” of body size variation within...
YIBS Postdoc Wins Romer Prize for 3D Modeling of Extinct Animal Joints
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Armita Manafzadeh was presented the Romer Prize by the Society of Vertebrate...
Sappho Gilbert National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Podcast
Ph.D. Candidate at the Yale School of Public Health & YIBS Science Communications Fellow, Sappho Gilbert was recently interviewed on the National Institute of...
Researchers Solve Hundred-Year-Old Botanical Mystery that was Key to the Spread of Plant Life on Land
YSE-led research has discovered the answer to a 100-year-old paleontology mystery — how early plants emerged from their watery habitats to grow on land through changes to...
