The great but grumpy biologist J.B.S. Haldane was once asked what evidence would disprove evolution, whereupon he growled: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.” He was referring to the ...

Trait Evolution on a Phylogenetic Tree: Relatedness, Similarity, and the Myth of Evolutionary Advancement By: David Baum, Ph.D. ( Dept. of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Ave ...

The phrase "family bush" doesn't trip off the tongue the way "family tree" does, ... Instead, evolution took a "let 1,000 flowers bloom" approach—see which species survives and thrives.

“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 ...

A Surprise for Evolution in a Giant Tree of Life. Researchers build the world’s largest evolutionary tree and conclude that species arise because of chance mutations—not natural selection.

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.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Canadian evolutionary biologist Dolph Schluter the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the mechanics of evolution, which has ...

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.

A team of researchers from the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) consortium, initiated by Professor ZHANG Guojie of Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University and collaborators ...