A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed molecules from extinct relatives of rhinos and other large mammals, have pushed ...

Overcoming Evolutionary Challenges with Protein Structures For decades, biologists have used evolutionary or phylogenetic trees to map how species and genes diverge from common ancestors.

Despite their importance, complete evolutionary trees are surprisingly rare. Although the NCBI taxonomy contains DNA sequence data for nearly 500,000 species, only about 150,000 species are ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data ...

“Evolutionary trees are a hypothesis like most things in science, and as data comes in, we might choose to support a different hypothesis,” Mojonnier said. Misreading them leads to misconceptions.

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal. Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird ...

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