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 ...

This diagram is an example of a simple phylogenetic tree ... diverged lineages or deep splits in the tree of life. Indeed, the most basic postulate of evolutionary theory is that the same general ...

Although phylogenetic inference is a rich and complex field, it is based on the simple ... the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these ...

“Evolution isn't just a story ... extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore this tree and understand ...

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 ...

making them vital in understanding the evolutionary tree of life. For decades, scientists had assumed that archaea simply ...

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 ...

This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple life forms gradually evolved ... In this evolutionary tree, species A and B share a recent common ancestor.

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

This supports Darwin's theory of evolution, which states that simple life forms ... organisms have changed as life developed on Earth. In this evolutionary tree, species A and B share a recent ...