A humorous view of mouse evolution is reproduced in figure 2.1, and a more serious phylogenetic tree with all extant members of the Mus subgenus is presented in figure 2.2. There is still a great deal ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to ...

Mapping those behaviors onto the avian phylogenetic tree revealed that the trait spans from some of ... Or a plover may begin what’s known as a rodent run, mimicking a flightless mousy snack to entice ...

This may be the reason why biologists have only in the last few decades come to develop a rigorous understanding of phylogenetic trees. This understanding allows present-day researchers to use ...