In hid book Wonderful Life, Stephen Gould presents the bewildering array of Cambrian fauna, and tries to make a sense of it. Along the way, he hits on a favorite theme: the power illustrations have to ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the distinctions between chimpanzee ...

Mitonuclear discordance refers to the mismatch between evolutionary histories inferred from mitochondrial DNA and those reconstructed from nuclear genomes. This phenomenon arises when mitochondrial ...