This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

Botanical taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying plant species, remains indispensable for understanding biodiversity and informing conservation strategies. Recent advances have refined both ...

Humans make stuff up—including the names and classifications of living things. But those categories are still useful. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how taxonomy and systematics ...

Fern species represent one of the most diverse and evolutionarily significant lineages of vascular plants. Over recent decades, phylogenetic studies have endeavoured to elucidate the evolutionary ...

Stephen Garnett receives funding from International Union for Biological Sciences, the Australian Research Council and the National Environment Science Program Les Christidis receives funding from the ...

Phylogeny is the representation of the evolutionary history and relationships between groups of organisms. The results are represented in a phylogenetic tree that provides a visual output of ...

Kathleen A. Hill receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Lila Kari receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...