If the Earth's evolutionary history had been this simple, the tree of life would just be a straight line consisting of countless generations of the same kind of bacteria-like organisms that were ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

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 ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

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 ...

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.