The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the ...

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

students will watch seven videos that introduce the missions and give context for how the theme of each mission helps us understand how evolution has shaped life on Earth. Deep Tree: Students ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

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 ... organisms have changed as life developed on Earth. In this evolutionary tree, species A and B share a recent ...