Darwin famously ends On the Origin of Species with a description of the diversity of plants and animals found in an “entangled bank” and he contemplates how these “endless forms most beautiful” have arisen from the simple process of evolution by natural selection. In our lab, we seek to untangle the interactions among different species and genotypes in order to better understand how selection shapes the expression and maintenance of the diversity of phenotypes we see in nature.
Untangling Nature

