They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

If it succeeded, it could capture 4.4 billion years of evolution. “You know, for half a billion dollars, you could probably fill in the entire tree of life,” Gowers said.

Researchers merged genetic data from 9,239 bird species (from nearly 300 studies) plus 1,000 curated entries to build a complete, shareable evolutionary tree. Published in PNAS and integrated into the ...

The study was led by Professor Emily Jane McTavish and her team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They worked to gather and organize data on 9,239 bird species, pulling from nearly 300 published ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Figure 1: Illustration of the reconstruction process of HERV Env proteins. The first step was to extract env genes for both endogenous and exogenous retroviruses from Literature, Dfam, NCBI, Uniprot, ...

Like It’s Tough To Be A Bug!, Zootopia: Better Zoogether! will bring the Tree of Life Theater to life with 4D effects, animatronics, and an all-new 3D film.

The It’s Giving Tree Challenge in Bitlife tasks players with living out life as a carpenter, distributing their possessions and wealth among people they know, which fortunately means the ...

The largest timed molecular phylogenetic tree of life, called a "timetree," to date includes just over 200 primate species, while the largest synthetic timetree, drawing from over 4,000 published ...