Viral genomes represent essential elements of the phylogeny of life and have played important ... genomic classification within the phylogenetic tree, are not polyphyletic and are capable of ...
(Darwin 131–132) In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution ...
“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...
As the tree of life became more complex, the assumption that the human species was the inevitable outcome of progressive evolution became less plausible. Although non-Darwinian theories were retained ...