The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...

I am the Researcher Leader for Ancient DNA, and the Head of the Division of Vertebrates and Anthropology in the Earth Sciences Department. I mainly work on projects that involve recovering DNA from ...

Darwin's ideas have influenced biology ever since ... The only illustration in On the Origin of Species is a tree of life, which he used to explain the relationship between species and the ...

For weeks after, as Darwin continues to explore the pristine rainforest, he is awed. "Whilst seated on a tree, & eating my luncheon in the sublime solitude of the forest, the pleasure I experience ...