During the Ice Age, not only was the landscape of the Earth drastically different from what it is today, but so were the ...

Much of this knowledge has emerged from the tremendous body of work from one scientist, Alfred Russel Wallace (Figure 1), widely regarded as the “Father of Biogeography.” Aside from co ...

Phylogenetics, systematics, and biogeography deal with the identifying, classifying, and understanding the relationships among organisms, including their geographical extent. Methods range from ...

Wang Rongjiang's research group at the School of Life Sciences and the Center for Ecological Research of Peking University ...

Darwin, Wallace and the other 19th century naturalists who traveled widely were fascinated by the distribution of animals and plants in their habitats around the world. Why do the Galapagos ...

Part two of three! Penguins are some of the most popular animals on the planet thanks to their outstanding ability to survive ...

The Evolution Lab contains two main parts: Build A Tree: Students build phylogenetic trees themed around the evidence of evolution, including fossils, biogeography, and similarities in DNA.

With distinct boundaries and a range of sizes, islands and archipelagos are natural evolutionary laboratories, ideal for testing theories about evolution, biogeography and ecology. A lack of molecular ...