The labels at the "tips" of a phylogeny can correspond to individual organisms, to species, or to sets of species, as long as each tip makes up a separate branch on the tree of life. In fact ...

This makes intuitive sense because common ancestry is the only factor that unites four billion years of life on Earth. This connection between taxonomy and phylogeny means that new discoveries or ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... applications of phylogeny to health, and human evolution. The worksheets are divided into missions and ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented ... The genome-based phylogeny helps to resolve long-standing evolutionary debates and provides ...