Learn why our ancient ancestors maintained their climbing abilities once they developed their walking ones, and discover how ...

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.

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

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 ...

A glimmer of hope has emerged for Britain's beloved ash trees. According to a new study published in Science, some wild ash ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

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.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

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.

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 ...