Max Telford translated the technical effort behind studying evolution into a relatable story for every reader in The Tree of ...

Phylogeny is the representation of the evolutionary history and relationships between groups of organisms. The results are represented in a phylogenetic tree that provides a visual output of ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 300, No. 5 (May 2014), pp. 937-951 (15 pages) Although a worldwide phylogeny of the bolbitidoid fern genus Elaphoglossum is now available, little is known about ...

According to the oral polio vaccination (OPV) hypothesis, the main (M) group of HIV-1 (the viruses responsible for the majority of global AIDS cases) emerged as a result of the vaccination of about ...

Three nuclear genes, lsu-rDNA (encoding nuclear large subunit rDNA), ITS (encoding the rDNA internal transcribed spacers and 5.8 S rDNA) and rpb2 (encoding the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase ...

Fungi, Viridiplantae and Animalia are all large clades descended from unicellular, flagellated, aquatic forms that radiated extensively on land. For both plants and animals, biologists have developed ...

An international research team included institutions from China, the Netherlands and Belgium, uncovers the global patterns ...

Gibbons, small apes closely related to humans, face severe threats to their survival. However, their evolutionary history has ...

Broad host range (BHR) synthetic biology aims to capitalize on a wide range of microbial phenotypes to expand biodesign applications not confined to traditional model organisms. Despite the ...

Liu, Jie, May-Collado, Laura, Pekár, Stano, and Agnarsson, Ingi. 2016. "A revised and dated phylogeny of cobweb spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae): A predatory Cretaceous lineage diversifying ...

ON AGGRESSION by Konrad Lorenz. 306 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.75. The mark of Cain is on the century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action ...

Haeckel’s 'Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny' explains why reliability isn’t built overnight—it evolves through data, ...