Today, researchers using the genetic techniques of "evo devo" can trace the evolution of the various kinds of organisms that Darwin fit into his "tree of life" (here, from an 1837 notebook ...

The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

Ecuador and the Tree of Life (12:55) Darwin's theory of a single tree of life and current biological research In Ecuador, biologists explore how adaptations to new environments can create new ...

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 ...

In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution, especially in the general ...

My research interests lie in the taxonomy and evolution of parasitoid wasps ... I upload these barcodes and their specimen records to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), so that researchers across ...

the great and complex battle of life...” – unlike his predecessors who viewed nature as a peaceful, harmoniously designed landscape painting, Darwin had observed that nature was a battlefield ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us ... The young Charles had a quietly Christian upbringing, but his family life was one of openness to new ideas.

In the book, Darwin set out his theory of evolution, based on his years of research and what he had seen when travelling across the globe on the Beagle. Darwin recognised that his theory could ...

Evolution, Darwin's "descent with modification through ... Darwin himself made a stab at drawing a "tree of life," a diagram that traces the evolutionary relationships among species based on ...