Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill merged their plant collections to create the third-largest university herbarium in the country. | Opinion

Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill merged their plant collections to create the third-largest university herbarium in the country. | Opinion

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

Abstract. The fossil record is incomplete, as evidenced by the pervasive presence of ghost lineages throughout the Tree of Life. For example, across placen

Forthcoming from HarperCollins India, Winter 2023: Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak fables of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figur...

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Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

Abstract. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a key step in phylogenetic analysis and is prone to error. Unfortunately, algorithms that remove likely alig

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

AbstractOver the last 30 years, as ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) has become more theoretical, experimental, and data driven, there has been a growing worry that the space for natural history ...

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The Lower Jurassic family Echioceratidae comprises ammonoids crucial for upper Sinemurian biostratigraphy and is a good model for studying the serpenticone morphology present in a wide variety of grou...