Convergent evolution is when organisms independently find their way to the same evolutionary solution for the same environmental problem.

This first attempt to detect genome-wide convergent sequence evolution across divergent taxa reveals the phenomenon to be much more pervasive than previously recognized.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Jonathan Losos, author of the new book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution, which explores the growing understanding of "convergent ...

In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species -- the ''family tree'' of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution of a group of ...

Researchers will reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to new method for identifying extremely ...

Study suggests that most of our evolutionary trees could be wrong Scientists say convergent evolution is much more common than previously thought Date: June 1, 2022 Source: University of Bath ...

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.

Ben Crair on the hoatzin, the bird that is seemingly defying the concept behind the tree of life; B10K, a research group that is trying to sequence the genome of every species of bird; and DNA ...