This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. "Hello! How are you doing?" Lyudmila Trut says, reaching down to unlatch the door of a wire cage labeled "Mavrik.

Lyudmila Trut has been lead scientist on this work since 1959, and together with biologist and historian of science, Lee Dugatkin, she tells the inside story of the science, politics, adventure and ...

Lyudmila Trut, a Russian evolutionary geneticist at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics who died Oct. 9 at age 90, devoted her career to investigating such questions, replicating and compacting ...