Thanks to a team of scientists, there's a new "tree of life" showing the ancestry of millions of different species dating back ... "Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

“As a result, all taxa, and taxonomy, are abstract to some degree. As our understanding of the world changes, we have to adjust our ideas to better fit the facts.” The northern bald ibis is an ...

But it also had a smoother quality that struck him as “off-the-charts ... That’s all taxonomy is,” says James “Van” Remsen, the SACC’s chairman. Of the various “species concepts ...

There are more than five million which remain to be found, according to new research, which warns that at the present rate of cataloguing them all ... species. One of the challenges for taxonomy ...

Both of these charts are derived from my personal database of mammal names. Because taxonomy is never fully settled and these are counts of species I currently consider valid, the exact counts may ...

A tiny snail was recently named after painter Pablo Picasso. It’s one of many species named after celebrities or artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after ...

The first eukaryotes arose no later than 1.8 billion years ago and gradually evolved to a stable level of diversity from ...

A species is ... now known as Linnaean taxonomy. This was the idea that every organism could be classified into increasingly specific groups, culminating in its species. All species also belong ...