To help you explore this tree and understand the amazing mechanism behind it, we’ve created the NOVA Evolution Lab. Play this Lab and you’ll be on your way to becoming an expert in ...

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.

(Darwin 131–132) In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution ...

Intracellular endosymbionts that originally descended from free-living prokaryotes have been important in the evolution of eukaryotes by giving rise to two cytoplasmic organelles. Mitochondria ...

An archive of works by the scientist Charles Darwin has been recognised by the United Nations for its importance to global ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Convergent evolution occurs when organisms that aren’t closely related ... We observe this phenomenon all over the tree of life, from mammals and invertebrates to plants and microorganisms. Species ...

It's NFL Explained: Evolution of the QB tree! It has been dubbed the highest profile position in all of sports: the NFL quarterback. So it's time to see how the position has evolved, from a time ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

But how did the evolution of life proceed through the early ... We used this information to layer on dates to the bacterial tree of life. We started by training an artificial intelligence (AI ...