Tiffany Taylor worked at Live Science in the summer of 2024 as a Fellow of the Association of British Science Writers. She is a professor of Microbial Ecology and Evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., where her research group studies evolution in real-time in the lab, using bacteria to explore how genes and genomes evolve. She has also authored three children’s books on evolution and genetics. When she is not doing research, she’s usually running – sometimes for pleasure, more often after her two small children.
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Meet LUCA, the 4.2 billion-year-old cell that's the ancestor of all life on Earth todayNew research gives insight into when the ancestor of all living things lived, and it's earlier than we thought.
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1-in-100 million 'cotton candy' lobster caught off New Hampshire alive and well at aquariumA beautiful and rare "cotton candy" lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet.
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These bacteria trigger a sex change in wasps — scientists finally know howScientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating the need for males.
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