Stories by Paul S. Manos

is a professor at Duke University. He studies the systematics and biogeography of the flowering plants, with a particular focus on the evolution of oaks, hickories and walnuts. Credit: Nick Higgins

Evolution

How Oak Trees Evolved to Rule the Forests of the Northern Hemisphere

Genomes and fossils reveal their remarkable evolutionary history

July 14, 2020 — Andrew L. Hipp, Paul S. Manos and Jeannine Cavender-Bares