In era of collaboration, individual initiative can still pay off

Eva Emerson
Sandy Schaffer
Even when we don’t say it explicitly, much of the science reported in this magazine is the result of collaboration and teamwork, both small (such as the duo predicting a shrinking range for lemurs) and large (such as the expansive study of the human epigenome, which involved more than 60 teams with upwards of 150 researchers taking part in the analysis alone).