The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students build phylogenetic trees themed around the evidence of evolution, including fossils, biogeography, and similarities in DNA.

Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same ... does not refer to a monophyletic group, it is difficult to make general statements about the organisms in this group.

“Understanding phylogenetic trees can be difficult, but we’re working to make it more accessible,” says principal investigator Chia Shen, director of Scientists’ Discovery Room (S ...

Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as extremely powerful tools ... it is still easy to make errors of reasoning. For example, suppose you are told that goldfish have body outgrowths (in this ...

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species.