In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry.

From ancient algae to domestic dogs, scientists are uncovering surprising twists in evolution’s story. New research challenges long-held ideas about how species form, adapt, and branch off. These ...

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called “last universal common ancestor” represents the most ancient organism that researchers can study.

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 ...

In a world where evolutionary biology often gets boiled down to simplistic hierarchies of "primitive" and "advanced" species, a new book by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) biologist ...

1. The Whale and the Virus: How Scientists Study Evolution -- 2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin: A Brief History of Evolutionary Ideas -- 3. What the Rocks Say: How Geology and Paleontology Reveal ...

Animal, vegetable, or mineral? -- Microbes first -- The germ of phylogeny -- Creatures void of form -- About chaos -- Kingdoms at biology's borders -- The prokaryote and the eukaryote -- On the unity ...

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely to cause disease, even when those mutations have never been seen before in ...