My research seeks to recast the current culture war over so-called Darwinian science versus intelligent design by re-examining the historical roots of evolutionary theory itself.
As the procedure goes from the leaves to the root of the evolutionary tree, protein sequences are truncated to leave the most conserved evolutionary cores.
More recently, several entirely different approaches, based on the comparative genomics of gene content, protein content, protein domain content and the organization of protein domains, have been undertaken for determining the root of the evolutionary tree.
Helicases are ubiquitous in nature and are considered to have evolved from near the very root of the evolutionary tree.
The first epoch begins at the root of the evolutionary tree and continues until some point between 1986 and 1992.
Correctly placing the root of the evolutionary tree of all life would enable us to deduce rigorously the major characteristics of the last common ancestor of life.
The root of the evolutionary tree is an unresolved issue; however, our analysis is not sensitive to the placement of root since we are only concerned about the tree edges and paths between nodes, regardless of the direction.
Common ancestry is a central idea in biology; its roots can be traced back to the beginning of evolutionary theory.
Nuclear genomic signals of the 'microturbellarian' roots of platyhelminth evolutionary innovation.
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