Imagine that a mutation occurred in an individual belonging to a lineage on a phylogenetic tree, and that this mutation changed some visible aspect of the organism that carried it. For example ...

The psychological, sociological and evolutionary roots of conspecific violence in humans are still debated, despite attracting the attention of intellectuals for over two millennia 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ...

A tiny wrinkled sack with a big mouth and no anus may well be the earliest-known of humans’ forebears. Meet Saccorhytus coronarius, a 540-million-year-old critter the size of a grain of sand ...

Imagine tracing your family tree not just to distant ancestors, but to creatures that once swam in primordial seas and hopped along muddy riverbanks. The connection is more than poetic—it’s written in ...

Due to the zoonotic nature of SARS-CoV-2, it is next to impossible to predict the trajectory of the future phylogenetic diversity of the virus, and how it may adapt and evolve to infect humans in ...

Using data from their microinversion detection technique – an open-source software system called InvChecker – the researchers reconstructed the phylogenetic tree for 15 mammals.

South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

To clarify just where Mixodectes fits on the evolutionary tree, the team conducted two phylogenetic analyses. One analysis supported that they were archaic primates, while the other did not.

As of June 16, 2022, there were 10,594,265 sequences displayed in the UShER COVID-19 phylogenetic tree. 10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code have now been organized into a phylogenetic tree ...

Fossils tell tale of last primate to inhabit North America before humans. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231106134834.htm ...

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity – a measure of the range of different ...