Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life. However, as the evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij argued, there are other ways to explain why these ...

From the genius and torment of Charles Darwin to the scientific revolution that spawned the tree of life, from the power of sex to drive evolutionary change to the importance of mass extinctions ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...

Networks of Genome Evolution Replace the Tree of Life Evolutionary biologists used the sequences of multiple genomes of diverse life-forms to construct and compare thousands of phylogenetic trees ...

They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life. However, as the evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij argued, there are other ways to explain why these ...

From molecules to ecosystems, research topics span the emergence of the earliest form of life, to the evolutionary aspects of environmental change, sustainability and the biodiversity crisis. Our ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

In the evolutionary tree of life, organisms that have eukaryotic cells are all on the same branch, suggesting this type of cell evolved only once. VectorMine/iStock via Getty Images Plus The other ...