What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

This example illustrates the fact that a phylogeny is, at its most basic level, a history of descent from common ancestry. Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same pattern is ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

On the established tree of animal evolution, comb jellies branch off after the cnidarians, other jelly-filled creatures like sea anemones and jellyfish. Like vertebrates, cnidarians exhibit bilateral ...

and their collaborators explored the link between tree radial growth and evolutionary relationships (i.e., phylogeny), especially under stress conditions such as drought. They used Blomberg's K ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can ...