Palaeobiology Programme News Today

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualise lifes history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term evolutionary and ecological impacts of... view more  Credit: J. Hoyal Cuthill and N. Guttenberg. Charles Darwins landmark opus, On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally brea...

Charles Darwin’s landmark opus,  On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” In fact, scientists now know that most spe...