One of the most profound discoveries of evolutionary biology is the fact that all ... succession of extinct species . . . [T]he great Tree of Life . . . covers the earth with ever-branching ...

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

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

The molecular evolutionary rate measures ... variation in molecular evolution across the tree of life. This is a central pursuit in evolutionary biology as it is relevant to key concepts such ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Know the science. Make a difference. Study the interactions between organisms and their environment and the evolutionary processes that produce and modify the diversity of life on earth. You'll be ...

The article in PNAS demonstrates that the distributions of protein lengths and their corresponding genes follow log-normal distributions across the whole tree of life. To do this, 9,913 different ...

The eukaryotic cell, the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth, emerged as a phase transition and unlocked the path toward other major transitions ...

While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the ...