Phys.org on MSN9d
12 New Weevil Species Discovered Across Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Taiwan
Twelve new weevil species were discovered by Jake Lewis's team at OIST, employing both innovative and classical taxonomy ...
7 Misconceptions About Evolution
Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...
GitHub18d
LinguaPhylo: Communicating and reproducing probabilistic models for phylogenetic analysis
The aim is to work towards a lingua franca for probabilistic models of phylogenetic evolution. This language should be readable by both humans and computers. Here is a full example ... The second line ...
Royal Botanic Gardens%2c Kew9d
Pollen and pollinators in legumes
The legume family is one of the most spectacular examples of evolutionary success ... I have mapped the pollen data onto the family tree of legumes, which was mostly generated using phylogenetic data ...
New Scientist15d
World's largest tree is also among the oldest living organisms
DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old ...
Smithsonian Magazine18d
More Than One in Three Tree Species Around the Globe Are at Risk of Disappearing, New Report Finds
An assessment from the International Union for Conservation of Nature paints a grim picture of the extinction risk of the world's trees ...