A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...

The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create ... trees" using the species' ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

published last year, which stitched existing trees together into one including 2.3 million species, of which few were microbial. “It’s exactly what you want to see if you’re interested in the tree of ...

Jack is a science writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Caltech and a PhD in molecular biology from Princeton University. He also completed a master’s ...

We can work towards securing and protecting biodiversity for future generations through the development of new technologies and multidisciplinary collaborations. The Darwin Tree of Life project is in ...