Tech & Science Daily: Why most of our evolutionary trees might be wrong

Forest elephants in Gabon (Alamy/PA)
Rachelle Abbott7 June 2022

New research by scientists at the University of Bath suggests the ‘evolutionary trees’ we’ve been using to link different species of animals might be wrong.

Tech & Science Daily spoke to Professor Matthew Wills who led the study using genetic data to work out which species were linked - rather than older methods which relied on things like how animals looked and where they originated.

He told us they discovered some matches they weren’t expecting.

Elon Musk has threatened to pull out of buying the Twitter platform.

Musk claimed the firm has still not shared accurate details about the number of spam and fake accounts on the platform.

China has brought forward a project to create a solar-power plant in space, that could beam energy back to earth.

It’s planning to launch a trial satellite in 2028 to test the technology used to transmit energy from the power plant.

Apple has revealed what’s new for iOS16, CarPlay and the new Macbook Air, a group of advisors at the company behind taser weapons have resigned over plans to introduce drones armed with stun guns into US schools. We look at how climate change is altering the Alps, why male athletes have stiffer arteries than women of the same calibre, plus prehistoric DNA has found evidence of ancient ‘pizzly bear’ hybrids.

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