This diagram is an example of a simple phylogenetic tree. In most cases, researchers draw phylogenetic trees in such a way as to record only those events that are relevant to a set of living taxa.

How do scientists diagram evolutionary relationships? Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches ...

Data viz isn’t just a modern-day craze. Designer Manuel Lima, author of The Book of Trees, discusses the origins of the tree diagram.

Often we use tree diagrams to model conditional probability. This is where there is more than one outcome and they are not independent – in other words the first outcome affects the probability ...

For anthropologists, the genealogical diagram is a piece of graphic shorthand whose theoretical status is rarely considered. This article pursues the visual dimension of various sorts of European ...