Darwin's view of the evolutionary tree is beautifully expressed in the ... examples of such statements include "tetrapods (land vertebrates) evolved from fish" or "humans evolved from monkeys." ...

Evolutionary trees show how different species have evolved ... diagram is the bottom where there was a common ancestor for all vertebrates. We are not sure what animal this is.

Research in our group investigates a number of questions central to understanding animal evolution and development: What determines the lifelong regenerative capacity of some animal lineages ? How the ...

In my lab, we are interested in understanding the developmental evolution of our own subphylum, the vertebrates. To do this, we study developmental gene expression, regulation, and function in three ...

Collectively, they write, the arches’ features suggest that yunnanozoans may be stem (early) vertebrates. “What makes this exciting is not so much the actual old age of the fossils, but [the] ...

The results have helped answer questions on when these ancient, jawless fish branched-off the vertebrate evolutionary tree. The discovery is incredibly important as it changes our view of the ...

I have particular interest in the evolutionary emergence of vertebrates, and of ecdysozoans, but also in the evolutionary emergence of animals more generally. This entails classical palaeobiology, but ...

Researchers report in the journal Cell that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin—and, by extension, our large, complex ...

According to a study published in the journal Cell, ancient viruses may have contributed to the development of myelin and, consequently, the large, complex brains. The researchers discovered that ...