Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

But it has led scientists to believe that some animals with very different ... a Duke researcher in molecular development and evolution, said: "The family tree is a crucial evolutionary roadmap.

A simplified evolutionary tree for the genus Psilocybe. Clade I and Clade II represent the Psilocybe species with the same gene order patterns within their psilocybin-producing gene clusters.

Researchers have used distinct markers from human subpopulations to trace back to our common African root in a giant human "tree ... Eurasia contributed to the evolution of anatomically modern ...

In this evolutionary tree, species A and B share a recent common ancestor. Species A is therefore most similar to species B. Species F and G also share a recent, yet different, common ancestor ...

Evolutionary trees are used to represent the relationships ... so they may be preserved in different ways. For example, dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits ...