As this example illustrates ... species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as extremely powerful ...

This diagram is an example of a simple phylogenetic tree. In most cases, researchers draw phylogenetic trees in such a way as to record only those events that are relevant to a set of living taxa.

Instruct students to use Deep Tree to create a phylogenetic tree poster or digital ... beautiful creatures on earth—and an extraordinary example of evolutionary adaptation.

Consider the great ape example I worked through with an Excel spreadsheet (link above). These are Jukes-Cantor distances based on number of mtDNA sequence differences. [See Glossary and pp. 91-93 of ...

Mapping those behaviors onto the avian phylogenetic tree revealed that the trait spans from some of the most basal bird families ... “If nothing seems to work, or the risk of losing their offspring ...