News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, and interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

04 September 2020

Awarded ERC Starting Grant: ‘I developed as a researcher at CAS’

Kjetil Lysne Voje, a fellow at the 2019/20 CAS project "Evolvability: A New and Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?", was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant.

CAS Fellow awarded the Dobzhansky Prize: ´I am absolutely thrilled´

Jacqueline Sztepanacz has been awarded the prestigious prize for her “accomplishments and future promise” as an outstanding young evolutionary biologist.

13 November 2019

Female orgasm: an evolutionary emancipation of women’s sexuality?

CAS Fellow Mihaela Pavličev presented her latest article, which suggests that the female orgasm once had a reproductive function, but then lost it.

03 October 2019

Meet the project: What are the preconditions for evolution?

Why and how do organisms evolve, and can they adapt and survive climate change? Christophe Pélabon and Thomas Fredrik Hansen work on some of the most fundamental questions about life on earth.