The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred ... The only illustration in On the Origin of Species is a tree of life, which he used to explain ...

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...