Humans did not arrive on most of the world's islands until relatively recently, making islands
favorable places for disentangling the timing and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic …

The ability to manipulate objects with limbs has evolved repeatedly among land tetrapods.
Several selective forces have been proposed to explain the emergence of forelimb …

Complex patterns of genome evolution associated with the end-Cretaceous [Cretaceous-
Paleogene (K–Pg)] mass extinction limit our understanding of the early evolutionary history …

Phylogenetic studies in the phylogenomics era have demonstrated that reticulate evolution
greatly impedes the accuracy of phylogenetic inference, and consequently can obscure …

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are a diverse clade of echinoderms found from intertidal
waters to the bottom of the deepest oceanic trenches. Their reduced skeletons and limited …

We present a complete, time-scaled, evolutionary tree of the world's bird species. This tree
unites phylogenetic estimates for 9,239 species from 262 studies published between 1990 …

Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) are a diverse clade that is easily distinguishable from other
birds. Despite the clear characters that define Psittaciformes (hooked bills, zygodactylous …

The evolutionary histories of different genomic regions typically differ from each other and
from the underlying species phylogeny. This makes species tree estimation challenging …

Many highly recognizable species lack genetic data important for conservation due to
neglect over their hyperabundance. This likely applies to the Sulfur-crested Cockatoo …

Species living on islands are predictably different from their mainland counterparts in
morphology and behaviour, but the source of these differences is still debated. Islands, in …