By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

But who knows, if we blurred the line between us and the rest of the animal kingdom, maybe we would see ourselves for what we are—just another recently evolved branch of the Tree of Life. As an ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

That mechanism, of course, is evolution, Barnes told Live Science ... Historically, scientists based the tree of life on painstaking observations of the physical differences between living ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

Scientists in Darwin’s time and through most of the 20th century could only work out the branches of the evolutionary tree of life by looking at the structure and appearance of animals and plants.

The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine ... this single shift to daytime activity served as the evolutionary turning point for all butterfly species.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Schluter the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the mechanics of evolution ... of how the tree of life branches out.

There are plenty of things to critique about the working theory of evolution. For instance, there is the problem of ...

They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life. However, as the evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij argued, there are other ways to explain why these ...