In On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin proclaimed that “our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies”. That turned out to be easier said than done. Even as late ...

How do we know what today's lifeforms were like when they first evolved? For years, biologists could make inferences about how recent species shared common ancestors based on an approach called ...

The Groundplan-divergence Method of constructing phylogenetic trees was created during the 1950's for illustrating systematic principles, but it was taken up widely by researchers carrying out ...

P Skelton, A Smith and N Monks Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; 2002. 80pp plus CD. £29.95, hardback ISBN 0-521-52341-9. There is barely a field of biology that remains untouched by the use ...

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...

For centuries, philosophers, naturalists and scientists have been trying to devise systems that group living things according to their similarities and presumed relationships. That's taxonomy the ...

TAXON is the leading international journal devoted to systematics, phylogeny and taxonomy of algae, fungi, and plants. It also publishes papers on methodology, botanical history, biography, ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Normally the dinosaurian world is rocked by a new fossil – the biggest, fastest, or toothiest. But the latest ...

Vertebrates used to be so simple. They came in five common-sense categories: amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles. Birds were the winged and feathered ones, reptiles the scaly, ...

Funk, Vicki Ann and Brooks, D. R. 1981. Advances in cladistics: proceedings of the first meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. New York Botanical Garden.

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...