Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?

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 organisms ...

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 ...

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

International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 161, No. S6, Current Perspectives on Basal Angiosperms (November 2000), pp. S97-S107 (11 pages) Patterns and trends in angiosperm evolution can only be ...

Just as bird watchers may use binoculars to add to their species lists, scientists interested in bird evolution may use computational tools to clarify avian lineages. Indeed, such tools have enabled ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...

Phylogenetics and conservation biology : drawing a path into the diversity of life / Roseli Pellens and Philippe Grandcolas -- Questions. The value of phylogenetic diversity / Christopher Lean and ...

Evolution, Vol. 72, No. 5 (MAY 2018), pp. 1050-1062 (13 pages) Variation in rates of molecular evolution (heterotachy) is a common phenomenon among plants. Although multiple theoretical models have ...

Reflections on the history of systematics / Robert E. Kohler -- Willi Hennig's part in the history of systematics / Michael Schmitt -- Homology as a bridge between evolutionary morphology, ...

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 studies ...