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 ...

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

I upload these barcodes and their specimen records to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), so that researchers across the world can benefit. My pre-DToL background is in Biomedical Science and Novel ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... Darwin fit into his "tree of life ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, the assistant professor of biochemistry has been exploring the lush landscape of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution ... organisms are best described by the Darwinian ...

Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

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 ...

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles ... Darwin did not publish on microbiology... he did have an interest in microbiology...” Darwin also had a keen interest in the origin ...

will help you trace the profound ways in which science can uniquely transform human life. Image: Ellen Sharples, Charles Darwin at age Seven, 1816; Mauli and Fox, Charles Darwin, circa 1850-1860 ...

Show 1: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (two-hour premiere ... While cataclysmic events on Earth have pruned the tree of life, extinction also opens the door to diversity, carving out room for new ...

English Heritage Photo Library Charles Darwin drew a tree of life but didn't focus on how species multiply. William Perlman / Star Ledger / Corbis Charles Darwin's study of finches is "more ...