The project, which Cranston says is just "Version 1.0," is called the Open Tree of Life, since it welcomes contributions and comments from anyone in the science community who might have input, and ...

In 1837, Charles Darwin scribbled a simple tree in a notebook and scrawled above it, “I think.” That little doodle represented a big idea: that species were descended from common ancestors.

In 1837, Charles Darwin sketched a simple tree in one of his notebooks. Above it, he scrawled “I think.” That iconic image perfectly encapsulated Darwin’s big idea: that all living things ...

The central panel of Gustav Klimt's, "Tree of Life" triptych, painted around 1910 to 1911, was one of the artworks analyzed in the study.

One isn’t such a lonely number. All life on Earth shares a single common ancestor, a new statistical analysis confirms. The idea that life forms share a common ancestor is “a central pillar of ...

This controversial proposal stems from efforts by Hedges and collaborators to build the world’s most comprehensive tree of life — a chart plotting the connections among 50,000 species of Earth’s vast ...