Interview to our July AaRCTikTalks speaker Molly Cassatt-Johnstone

July 2026

The true life of the American cheetah

*“For animals belonging to two most distinct lines of descent, may readily become adapted to similar conditions, and thus assume a close external resemblance; but such resemblances will not reveal, will rather tend to conceal their blood-relationship to their proper lines of descent.” (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, 1859).

New Steering Committee.

With AaRC making two years on April 2026, the funding members of the Steering Committee stepped down from their positions and let the new members take charge. Pedro Morell Miranda will step down as chair, but remain as webmaster. After some delay on our side, the new composition of the Steering Committee is on the website, along with a new section for former members.

Interview to our February AaRCTikTalks speaker Anne Kathrine Runge

February 2026

Tracing prehistoric zoonoses through the bones of ancient animals

“Between animal and human medicine there is no dividing line, nor should there be. The object is different but the experience obtained constitutes the basis of all medicine.” (Rudolf Virchow, 1856; by Klauder, J.V., Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine. N Engl J Med, 258:170-177, 1958 [1]).

Interview to our February AaRCTikTalks speaker Anna Nagel

February 2026

Dating ancient DNA under the multispecies coalescent

“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.” (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Chapter IV, 1859).

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