[AdmSmith]

Plant evolution

[AdmSmith]

Climbing up (or down) the tree of life

[RightWhale]

There does not seem to be an evolutionary tree. Instead there is a tree drawn by each researcher, and each tree will change with each new piece of data. Always changing, always personal.

[PoorMuttly]

When they prove that a loaf of bread is related to the airplane...let me know.

Until then...I'm taking a shower.

[gore3000]

The problem with that approach, according to the new Wisconsin study, is that trees constructed on single genes often seem to lack reliability. Different genes give different answers so that one gene from a group of organisms depicts one tree, while a different gene from the same organisms will paint an entirely different phylogenetic picture.

Which shows quite well that the assumptions of this tree of life are totally false. If evolution were true each and every gene in each every species would provide the same tree. It does not because these species did not evolve, they were created and evolution is total nonsense. This is just another attempt after many failed ones to make some new criteria which can be manipulated to prove evolution to be true. Since even simple creatures have some 1,000 genes, there is plenty of room in this approach to get whatever results one wishes. It therefore is in no way objective and it is not science.