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The genus Clusia is particularly valuable for studying the evolution of photosynthesis because it contains the only known trees that use CAM.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Homo erectus, or H.erectus, occupies an important place in human evolutionary history because it was the first species in the genus Homo known to have migrated out of Africa.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The chance to name a species produces a curious sort of immortality for the bestowers: Their names might forever be attached to the animals, right after the genus and species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He lists a particular genus of moths christened Eucosoma bobana followed by E. cocana, E. dodana, E. fofana and so on, in singalong fashion for 23 more variations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The real blow came twelve years later, when, as a consequence of a radical taxonomic reshuffle, lepidopterists decided that Pappachi’s moth was in fact a separate species and genus hitherto unknown to science.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

"Ajimu contains the only site in the world where fossils of the giant salamander family and extant genera have both been found," says first author Masahiro Noda.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

In fact, more than 10,000 species have been described in just 83 big genera since the year 2000, which is about 2.5 times the size of the total flora of Ireland.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

This uncanny deadliness has a mystery at its core: These mushrooms are from three separate genuses, or groups of fungal species, that are not closely related.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2022

Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010

The large tribe, of the marmots, which includes the three large genuses of Arctomys, Cynomys, and Spermophilus, is still more sociable and still more intelligent.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince