Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same ... ancestral lineage and all the descendants of that ancestor. This group of organisms has the property of monophyly (from the Greek ...

Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as extremely powerful tools ... statements that incorrectly imply that one living species or group is ancestral to another; examples of such statements include ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new computational tool to help evolutionary biologists analyze complex genetic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species and the ...