Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

"They're molecular fossils." Caetano-Anollés and his colleague Feng-Jie Sun investigated the sequence and structure of hundreds of tRNAs to probe for deep evolutionary relationships in the tree of ...

have helped us better understand the nature and evolution of life on Earth. Bacteria and Eukarya. These three domains consist of dozens of kingdoms, nearly all of which are microbial. This is in ...

Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the primary two domains of life, the Archaea and Bacteria, are separated by a long phylogenetic tree branch and therefore distantly ...