Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented ... The genome-based phylogeny helps to resolve long-standing evolutionary debates and provides ...

The result of this analysis is a phylogenetic tree, which illustrates the branching patterns of evolution, showing common ancestors and the paths of divergence that led to the diversity of life we ...

He is associated with a new series of podcasts on human evolution hosted by The Australian ... creature probably still comfortable living in trees, who had teeth with hominin features.

Languages: English, Spanish Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young ...

A better way to think about human evolution is like a 'bushy tree' with many branches. This is the metaphor increasingly used by scientists in this field. Each branch represents an individual ...

The resulting phylogenetic estimate offers novel insights into the rapid radiation of modern birds and provides a taxon-rich backbone tree for future comparative studies.” By updating the family ...

The family tree is detailed in a study published December 4 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution and offers ... the fossil record to build a large phylogeny, or evolutionary family tree ...