Mysterious origin of the "tree of life" revealed
The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been ... is the true origin of them all. Researchers say they solved the mystery of the ...
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Forty Percent Of Tree Species Worldwide Are At Risk Of Extinction, A Revelation That Could Signal The Decline Of The World As We Know It
In an alarming development for conservationists, nature lovers – and anyone who likes to breathe oxygen – a recent report has ...
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Trait Evolution on a Phylogenetic Tree: Relatedness, Similarity, and the Myth of Evolutionary Advancement
This idea imagines that living species represent various degrees ... equally distant in time from the root of the tree of life and therefore all are equally advanced. Thus, in the eyes of ...
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Huge plan to map the DNA of all life in British Isles
The Darwin Tree of Life project has a tough deadline - all 70,000 species sequenced by the end of 2030. There is a lot of work to do, but this project could give us our most detailed understanding ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
of all cellular life really existed, although we still know little about what this ancestor was like and how it lived. Finally, the three-domain structure of Woese's tree (Figure 1a) shows that ...
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About the Evolution Lab
Shen’s team worked for several years to develop Deep Tree, “an open-ended space to explore the common ancestry of all species and understand how life continues to evolve.” Florian Block ...