An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right ...

Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

In 2015, a genetic study in the journal Nature suggested that the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off the evolutionary tree in its own direction 64 million years ...

Evolution's recipe book: How 'copy paste' errors cooked up the animal kingdom Date: April 15, 2024 Source: Center for Genomic Regulation Summary: A series of whole genome and gene duplication ...