Proposed changes in the primate order are stirring up evolutionary debate. Humans and chimpanzees should be grouped in the same genus, Homo, according to WSU researchers in a May 19 article (#2172) ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree species and their names are a product of a two-part plant naming system ...