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 ...

The naming of groups follows current popular usage. The current debate that the root of the tree may split eukaryotes into bikonts and unikonts is discussed in the text. Lineages containing ...

Encourage students to share their responses in a group discussion ... Instruct students to use Deep Tree to create a phylogenetic tree poster or digital presentation for the seven species that ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

The researchers assessed phylogenetic signal in different taxonomic (e.g., angiosperms and gymnosperms) and ecological (e.g., tropical, temperate, and boreal) groups of tree species, explored the ...

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 ...