Evolution

Evolution

A silent call

Brachycephalus froglets, from the Atlantic Forest, don't hear their own calls

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Zoology

A tree with unusual branches

Genetic analysis reveals unusual kinships between spiny rats

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Evolution

Why snakes don’t have legs

Missing sequence of 17 base-pairs meant snakes grew no legs

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BIODIVERSITY 

Appearances are deceiving

Integrated genetic and ecological studies reveal evolutionary processes

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PALEONTOLOGY

Heart of stone

New fossil record reveals an unforeseen pathway in the evolution of the heart

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ZOOLOGY

The voyages of sea turtles

Genetics help delineate populations of endangered species

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Biogeography

When the ocean was forest

The Atlantic Forest may have occupied the continental shelf in the Ice Age

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EVOLUTION

The richness of the highland grasslands

Vegetation in Brazil underscores the importance of a non-forest ecosystem

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Archeology

The unusual menu of the Paracas people

A population that lived more than 2,000 years ago ate a carbohydrate-rich diet

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Formicivora paludicola

Birds isolated by marshes

Birds are found near the sources of the Tietê and Paraíba do Sul Rivers

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ORNITHOLOGY

The origin of the seedeaters

Studies capture the process of a South American bird group emerged

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Science education

Clouded visions

Young Brazilians look to cultural and religious sources to explain evolution

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Homo naledi

Collective help

Paleontologists found fossil remains of a previously unknown hominid species

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Insects preserved

100 million years ago

Insects shows how plant fertilization occurred about 105 million years ago

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GENETICS

The controversial conquest of the Americas

Analysis suggests that indigenous in Brazil carry the DNA from Oceania

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Evolution

Theory under construction

Natural selection creates groups of traits that vary in unison

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Fossils

Primordial snakes

Described species add 70 million years to the evolutionary history of serpents

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Botany

Among the algae and lianas

Researchers study the processes of species diversification

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Zoology

Evolutionary history in progress

Studies aim to understand the processes of species diversification

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Charles Darwin

Darwin online

Cambridge Digital Library publishes high-resolution digitized manuscripts

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Galapagos Islands

Research under threat in the Galapagos Islands

Charles Darwin Foundation is in the midst of a financial crisis

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IMMUNOLOGY

Mutual gains

T. gondii virulence strengthened their main host defences

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biota-fapesp education VI

Atlantic Forest is the theme of the 6th Biota Education

Talks stress Atlantic Forest's exuberance and the threats it faces

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Inselbergs

Birthplace of new botanic species

Rock outcrops may serve as birthplaces for plant species

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Photolab

A predator’s colors

A predator’s colors

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ECOLOGY

The origin of the Cerrado

Divergent evolutionary histories have changed the savannahs

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Collaboration

A step forward

FAPESP and NSF create partnership on Brazilian biodiversity

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Science communication

From monkey to man

A permanent exhibit on human evolution on display in São Paulo

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COVER

The first steps of a new species

Plants and animals differentiate by means of amazing mechanisms

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Paulo Vanzolini

The sage of biodiversity

Zoologist Paulo Vanzolini was one of the brains behind the creation of the FAPESP

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