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Evo Devo: Sharing genes for 3.5 billion years explores the emerging science of “evo-devo”—short for evolutionary and developmental biology—which has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of the mechanisms of evolution. Since the first single-celled organisms developed on our planet millions of years ago, more than a billion species have evolved, thrived, gone extinct, and given way to other species.

"Evo-devo tries to understand a fundamental question—how does evolution create new things? How does this force of nature, shaping life on the planet, work at fundamental levels?" (Dan Medeiros, a leading evo-devo researcher and Associate Professor of EBIO at the University of Colorado, Boulder).

The exhibit explores the main ideas behind evo-devo, such as how genes act like switches to control the��form of��an organism as it develops. It explains connections this fundamental research has to our daily lives. It also highlights some of the key research that has contributed to this exciting��area of science—from Darwin’s early ideas about natural selection, to today’s gene sequencing��and the .

This exhibit was produced through collaboration between the and the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder and was funded by the .