After examining these plants for three decades ... and created a formalized method for building computerized evolutionary trees that we now call cladistics. My colleague Vicki Funk and ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

then trees and finally flowering plants - the Earth's surface and its biogeochemical processes have also changed. In this issue, we present a collection of articles that explore how the evolution ...

The researchers found that an unexpectedly high number of evolutionary events—known as "speciation" where a new species of ...

Early plants like mosses and liverworts emerged ... These obstacles delayed the evolution of trees and other terrestrial organisms, according to Jennifer Clack’s 2012 book “Gaining Ground ...