“A New Tree of Life” (2016); (B) a simplified version showing other major divisions. Incidentally, not reproducing doesn’t mean you’re not involved in the evolutionary process. Non-reproductive ...

Play NOVA's Evolution Lab to explore the tree of life and become an expert in phylogenetics—the study of the evolutionary relationships among species. Opens in a new window.

Researchers worldwide have joined to create the most reliable avian tree of life to date. Prior to this project, which engaged 200 scientists from 80 institutions, scientists had sequenced the ...

Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life. Story by Darren Orf • 1mo.

While researchers debate their findings, Hedges’ group is already working on an even bigger tree — one with perhaps half a million of the roughly 1.5 million known species. “That will give us a more ...

The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it's in constant flux. ... Human Evolution Human evolution: Facts about the past 300,000 years of Homo sapiens.

In Charles Darwin’s world-changing work On the Origin of Species, the naturalist make use of the millennia-old metaphor in which all life is represented by a tree.He writes that “the ...

The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create and maintain its own ecosystem in arid regions. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people have ...