An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... year history of life on Earth––can be summarized in an enormous family tree. To help you explore this tree and understand the amazing mechanism ...

The more we discover about our species' family tree, the harder it becomes to pinpoint when exactly Homo sapiens emerged, ...

Amoebas and apples. Some are close, and some are distant, but they all share evolutionary relationships. The diagram of all these relationships is what Darwin called the "tree of life".

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...