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 ...

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 article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel ...

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

Botanists have mapped the evolutionary relationships between flowering plants using genomic data from more than 9500 species. The newly compiled tree of life will help scientists piece together ...

“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 ...

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

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 ...

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

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 ...

Along with Audrey Duroy, a knowledge keeper, Helen strives for a deeper understanding about the tree of life: Wiigwaasabak.

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks ... big questions to understand how life adapts and diversifies over time." Beyond evolutionary knowledge, the findings ...