"This book was originally published as an issue of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B; Biological sciences (volume 363; number 1496) but has been materially changed and updated"--Title ...

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 ...

Recent research published in Nature has transformed our understanding of animal evolution by revealing that ctenophores, also known as comb jellies, represent the earliest branch of the animal tree of ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...