… had inter-breeding life forms at all (but I doubt that life would become so complex) we'd have
just one big inter-breeding population: not so much a tree of life, as a slime of life, I suggest. …

We propose a model for evolution aiming to reproduce statistical features of fossil data, in
particular the distributions of extinction events, the distribution of species per genus and the …

JD Taylor (British Museum (Natural History)) similarly showed how the success of neogastropods
(20,000 species) can be traced back to their radiation in the Cretaceous, some 100 …

… the interplay between various aspects of tree shape and a predisposition of higher extinction
risks in species-poor clades is required to explain the substantial pruning of the Tree of Life. …

… Its deductive reasoner based implementation offers opportunities for a wide range of
pruning strategies to speed up processing using query specific optimization and thus making it …

… He says that in order to prolong the life of an ancient tree, one must prune the outer crown
in order to consolidate the canopy to compensate for decreasing root function. He maintains …

… To make computation tractable we construct a pruned taxonomy tree by removing taxa that
are not found in any input trees. This shrinks the problem size from 2.6 million tips to about 55 …

… the loss of branches from the tree-of-life. Early work suggested … extinctions might prune more
of the evolutionary tree. Loss of … Here we explore how extinction prunes the tree-of-life. Our …

Basically, every pruning of living parts of a tree has effects on the whole system “tree”, which …
It is necessary to estimate these reactions in order to evaluate the complete pruning …

… repeated pruning interventions using different pruning methods … were pruned in 2008 and
2010 according to widely used pruning … Crown dieback, growth of the plant and of the pruned …