Evolutionary biology articles from across Nature Portfolio

A comparative genomics study published in Nature Communications provides new insight into the genomic changes underlying the convergent evolution of sociality in spiders.

Luis Saraiva recalls a 1997 paper by Krings et al., which reports the sequencing of mitochondrial Neanderthal DNA extracted from a 40,000-year-old bone, enabling the direct study of the relationship between ancient and modern humans.

In this Journal Club, Morgan Levine discusses a publication by Rose and Charlesworth that provided direct evidence of the impact of natural selection on differential ageing rates.

Four papers in Science use single-cell, single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic profiling of reptilian and amphibian brain tissue to provide insights into the evolution of vertebrate forebrains.

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A framework to experimentally traverse the large space of functionally neutral variants in a toxin–antitoxin protein complex reveals insights on evolvability and entrenchment of molecular interactions.