"DiFrisco Awarded Popper Prize"
James DiFrisco from the Francis Crick Institute has been awarded the 2023 Popper Prize by the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science for his article on "Toward a Theory of Homology: Development and the De-coupling of Morphological and Molecular Evolution." The prize includes a £500 award, and his work focuses on the relationship between developmental and phylogenetic homology in light of current evidence from developmental and evolutionary genetics and genomics.