This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right before his Aug. 1 start date, Tiley and colleagues published a Perspectives piece in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the shifting nature of the way researchers think about evolution, particularly so-called reticulate evolution, which examines evolution in terms of “family webs” rather than “family trees.”
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