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 ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

“On the Origin of Species,” published twenty-two years later, includes only one diagram: an evolutionary tree. The tree of life became for biology what the periodic table was for chemistry ...