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

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

“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 ...

Indeed, the most basic postulate of evolutionary theory is that the same general phenomenon of descent from common ancestry applies to both the most diverse branches of the tree of life and the ...

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 ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

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 ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

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 ...

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks ... big questions to understand how life adapts and ...

That’s a problem for scientists who want to understand evolution on a larger scale. And it means that building a true Tree of Life—one that covers every living species—requires combining ...