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An international team, including UNIGE, will analyse the African elephant’s trunk, and its exceptional agility and versatility, to create a robot guided by touch.

The project aims at exploring the function and dysfunction of the claustrum, a poorly understood neural structure in the mamalian brain.

A study from Estella Poloni’s group: Did controlled use of fire impact the evolution of human genomic diversity ?

Michel Milinkovitch's team uncovers the developmental process generating the Chamydosaurus frill.

The geneticists and prehistorians of the Anthropology Unit of the University of Geneva tell you about human history on the African continent. An extraordinary exhibition not to be missed!

The Milinkovitch Lab characterizes the complexity and diversity of surface nano-gratings in 353 species of snakes.

Hybridization and introgression during density‐dependent range expansion: European wildcats as a case study.

An ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Michel Milinkovitch. The grant is endowed with 2.5 million Euros over 5 years.

Our work on the African elephant skin is highlighted in the National Geographic Magazine.

How are feathers formed and what determines their number and distribution on the skin? Today, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) have demonstrated that genetic signaling between cells and mechanical processes combine in the bird skin to form a line of propagation, along which the feather buds develop.