(that’s us) did not descend from a neat, single lineage. Instead, modern humans can link their heritage back to at least two ...

Thankfully, the tree metaphor not only offers a way to keep ... that incorrectly imply that one living species or group is ancestral to another; examples of such statements include "tetrapods ...

Tree diagrams have been used in evolutionary ... Figure 2B shows what we might see if we followed the fate of a single ancestral lineage (Figure 2A) long enough that it gave rise to four ...

But not all ancestral journeys go as planned. Turner of Solway Tours often encounters visitors who believe they are directly descended from Robert the Bruce, only to have their family tree ...

Many families have stories of royalty in their family tree, and while in most cases they do turn out to be just stories, it is always fun to investigate. A lot of people will be surprised to hear that ...