Much debate has ensued during the past decade on the positive and negative aspects of the three major approaches to biological classification: cladistics, evolutionary classification (=phyletics), and ...

In a recent article published in PLOS Biology, a team of 45 virologists, evolutionary biologists, bioinformaticians, and structural biologists from around the world arrived at a consensus on virus ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 167, No. 1/2, Dedicated to the memory of John S. L. Gilmour (1989), pp. 87-92 (6 pages) The contribution of John Gilmour to the philosophy of taxonomy, ...

Researchers report a fossil plant that extends the history of a seed plant sister group. Noeggerathiales is an order of plants that lived between 323 and 252 million years ago, and although much is ...