The map doesn’t show the road to breakthrough discoveries, but it can be used to determine which areas of science are most closely connected to one another, as well as which are the most—and ...

The dinosaur family tree, used by paleontologists and dinosaur buffs for the past 130 years, has just been transformed. In the old family tree, there are two major groups of dinosaurs: the bird ...

In addition to smaller family trees, they put together the giant one of 13 million people, connected by ancestry and marriage, spanning an average of 11 generations.

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Feeling evolution in your guts: Evolutionary biology can benefit from a bit of fecal matter, as it gets the Weird Science treatment this week thanks to the primary component of those samples ...

The first tree connects 64 individuals over seven generations, and is the largest pedigree reconstructed from ancient DNA to date. The second family tree connects 12 individuals over five generations.

Just as a genealogical tree can reveal fascinating information, a mathematical family tree can illuminate the evolution of the discipline and the roles of the key contributors to its development.