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

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

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 ...

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.

References [1] Lineage Thinking in Evolutionary Biology: How to Improve the Teaching of Tree Thinking. Science & Education (2024). [2] Seeing the Woods for the Trees Again: Analyzing Evolutionary ...

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 ...

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species.

“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 ...