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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The COVID-19 phylogenetic tree, called UShER, was created by UCSC researchers and is the primary tool used by health officials worldwide to track the spread of variants in their community.

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 ...

The rise of genome sequencing, at the turn of the twenty-first century, seemed to bring Darwin’s dream within reach. “It is now realistic to conceive of reconstructing the entire Tree of Life ...

A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today. Skip to content.

A new, time-calibrated phylogenetic tree for angiosperms based on 353 nuclear genes. Credit... Baker et al., Nature 2024 ...