No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...
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Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...
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Scientists identify chicken-sized dinosaur that rewrites the dinosaur family tree, filling a 70-million-year evolutionary gap

Scientists Identify Chicken-Sized Dinosaur That Rewrites the Dinosaur Family Tree, Filling a 70-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap ...
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Teaching Evolutionary Biology Through Tree Thinking

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...
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What Goes Up a Tree Must Evolve the Ability to Climb Down

In a study of chimpanzee and monkey anatomy, primate arms provide hints about how our ancestors got to the ground in one piece. By Miriam Fauzia Millions of years ago, a simian ancestor of humanity ...