What’s in a kiss? 21 million years of evolution

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...
Science Daily

Streamlining genetic analysis for phylogenetic studies

A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...
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Climbing man's family tree a collection of major writings on human phylogeny, 1699 to 1971 Edited by Theodore D. McCown and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy

Part one: 1699 to 1856: -- Orang-Outang sive Homo sylvestris: or the Anatomy of a pygmie / Edward Tyson -- The nomenclature of apes / George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -- Order I: bimanus. Order ...
The Scientist

Transposable Elements Could Help Resolve the Tree of Life

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate ...
Phys.org

SPRTA: A smarter way to measure evolution uncertainty

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These help scientists understand when new virus strains appear and how they are ...