They are the innovators, the young scientists who explore the world with an altogether original eye. They look at a jellyfish and see a way to understand the beating of our hearts. They design a general method to extract the most information with the least effort, then mathematically prove that no one will ever find a better way. They did into the core mystery of how it is, exactly, that the tangled knot of tissue and chemicals between our ears give rise to thoughts. The big questions, attacked from unorthodox directions: It takes nothing less to make it as one of our [Popular Science] Brilliant 10.
Awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding young evolutionary biologist.
