Proposed changes in the primate order are stirring up evolutionary debate. Humans and chimpanzees should be grouped in the same genus, Homo, according to WSU researchers in a May 19 article (#2172) ...

Discover the latest articles and news in related subjects. One of the major biological questions in metagenomics is the inference of the composition of a microbial community, that is, the relative ...

The human family tree is becoming harder to fit into the categories scientists have used for decades. Research from Monash ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...

Taxonomy is the science of classification according to a predetermined system, with the resulting catalog used to provide a conceptual framework for discussion, analysis or information retrieval. The ...

Plant taxonomy sits at the heart of biodiversity science, yet the boundaries of many species and species aggregates remain ...

The Ocean India Has Been Ignoring The Indian Ocean covers roughly 70.56 million square kilometres and drops to nearly 8,047 metres at its deepest point, the Sunda Deep. Until the last decade, Indian ...

Discover why some paleoanthropologists are calling for the reclassification of all human species and close relatives, like ...