Indonesia’s biodiversity gained renewed global attention following the discovery of a blooming Rafflesia hasseltii in ...

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

A research team has uncovered five distinct evolutionary lineages of Camellia sinensis var. assamica, reshaping our understanding of tea domestication and diversity.

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

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

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

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

A molecular phylogeny of the Didiereaceae was produced through parsimony analysis of chloroplast rp1 16 intron and trnL-trnF and trnT-trnL intergenic spacer sequences of all eleven species of the ...

Intrageneric relationships in the genus Brachycome were investigated by the comparison of nucleotide sequences of the chloroplast gene matK. Evolutionary trends of some morphological and cytological ...

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) is becoming an increasingly important tool in diverse scientific fields from ecological biomonitoring to wastewater surveillance of viruses. The fundamental challenge in eDNA ...

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 ...