This circular family tree of Earth's lifeforms is considered a first draft of the 3.5-billion-year history of how life evolved and diverged.
Credit: opentreeoflife.org
the available file must be monumentally large..
So, this tree is based on both DNA and characteristics binning?
They'll tax a taxonomy in a heartbeat.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Not really controversial.
I assume this is based on genomic sequences.
“the tree depicts the relationships among living things...” presumably based on genomic homologies. Not controversial, based on hard biochemistry.
“... as they diverged from one another over time...” This would be controversial, if any of it is, as it is assumption.
Vegetation was the same until people started experimenting with it.
GENESIS 1:11-12
11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened. 12 The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
JAMES 3:12
Does a fig tree produce olives, or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can’t draw fresh water from a salty spring.
Another Friday data dump? If this thread is not political, we could make it that way. Ha!
This circular family tree of Earth's lifeforms is considered a first draft of the 3.5-billion-year history of how life evolved and diverged.
Credit: opentreeoflife.org
WHere does mankind split off from two genders to the 80 genders that Facebook identifies?