evolutionary

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Scientists also now place the evolutionary split between octopuses and their ten-armed relatives, such as squids, in the Mesozoic era rather than hundreds of millions of years earlier.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

"This tells us that by the mid-Cambrian, when evolutionary rates were remarkably high, the oceans were already inhabited by arthropods with anatomical complexity rivaling modern forms," Ortega-Hernández added.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

These species represented a range of evolutionary branches, body sizes, and skeletal features.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

This approach combines anatomical features with fossil ages to estimate evolutionary relationships and divergence times.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

These diseases must have been the evolutionary survivors of far more pathogens that tried to make the jump to us from animals—and mostly failed.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond