I guess there are lots of things missing from this chart. It's pretty and all, but I was hoping for something that showed everything, at least relating to animals.
Coyote, you work with actual bones and stuff, right? Surely there are some great giant charts which show the tree of life including all the transitional fossil species. I guess, working in the electronics design field, where a schematic diagram will show each and every part and how they connect, even if there are thousands of them, I'm used to having information in a usable comprehensive format.
I noticed that many intermediate species are left out.
I too found the Tree of Life Web project a little confusing, and a lot of intermediate species were non-clickable, and some of the pages say they haven't been updated since 1995, and said things like "Temporary page" so I'm not sure what's happening there.
But real scientists must have available to them a great chart or tree diagram or something that has all the documented intermediate species listed in order. With all this talk of mountains of evidence, I'd have expected someone to come forward and say "Well here. Here's a chart with pictures of all the extinct intermediate species we've found, see for yourself that they follow a logical evolutionary path.." if, of course, such evidence is in evidence.
I would be most grateful to understand how this information is actually stored and cataloged. Thanks,
-Jesse