The UCMP’s Understanding Evolution and Understanding Science websites have been updated for February with the following features:
- Evo in the News: Hybrid sharks aren’t “trying” to adapt on Understanding Evolution examines the recent discovery of hybrid sharks near Australia and misconceptions about the discovery’s meaning.
- Cells within cells: An extraordinary claim with extraordinary evidence on Understanding Science shows how an unlikely idea — that the merging of cells played a prominent role in evolution — overcame strong initial resistance within the scientific community and came to be an accepted part of evolutionary theory.