Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

They arose once and then diversified into a massive family tree. Porter draws ... This is the ultimate truth of animal eyes: We can only understand their evolution when we learn to see the world ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we ...

Unfortunately, this ancestor is long dead. To compare anything besides bones, we need a living animal for comparison. For this, scientists use something called an "outgroup", a living descendant ...