Sun May 27, 2012, 09:30 PM

Odin2005 (53,521 posts)

Massive, Huge tree of life.

Click on the link for an easier-to-see image.

http://tellapallet.com/TreeOfLife.pdf

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Massive, Huge tree of life. (Original post)	Odin2005	May 2012	OP
Love it ! Thanks for posting.	BlueJazz	May 2012	#1
is that Jeb Bush as "The" human?	AlecBGreen	May 2012	#2
ACK, it does look like Jeb!	Odin2005	May 2012	#4
Beautiful! Thanks! nt	Sarah Ibarruri	May 2012	#3
perhaps that (at the link) was easier for you to see.	iemitsu	May 2012	#5
It's a PDF so you can zoom it in	EvolveOrConvolve	May 2012	#7
thanks, i made it larger too.	iemitsu	May 2012	#10
Wow, this is wonderful!	CaliforniaPeggy	May 2012	#6
You are welcome, Peggy!	Odin2005	May 2012	#9
A much, much larger and more complete tree can be found here:	Occulus	May 2012	#8
So chickens and ducks split off before other birds,	hedgehog	May 2012	#11
The base of the evolutionary tree is really messy.	Odin2005	May 2012	#12
Do you know the date of that?	muriel_volestrangler	May 2012	#13

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Sun May 27, 2012, 09:53 PM

BlueJazz (25,348 posts)

1. Love it ! Thanks for posting.

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Sun May 27, 2012, 10:54 PM

AlecBGreen (3,874 posts)

2. is that Jeb Bush as "The" human?

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Sun May 27, 2012, 11:07 PM

Odin2005 (53,521 posts)

4. ACK, it does look like Jeb!

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Sun May 27, 2012, 10:59 PM

Sarah Ibarruri (21,043 posts)

3. Beautiful! Thanks! nt

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Sun May 27, 2012, 11:07 PM

iemitsu (3,888 posts)

5. perhaps that (at the link) was easier for you to see.

but i needed a magnifying glass.
what an interesting "tree".
thanks.

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Mon May 28, 2012, 12:01 AM

EvolveOrConvolve (6,452 posts)

7. It's a PDF so you can zoom it in

It was microscopic for me too until I zoomed in a bit.

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Mon May 28, 2012, 01:37 AM

iemitsu (3,888 posts)

10. thanks, i made it larger too.

but i was dumb enough to post my first reaction.

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Sun May 27, 2012, 11:57 PM

CaliforniaPeggy (144,482 posts)

6. Wow, this is wonderful!

Thank you so much for bringing it to us.

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Mon May 28, 2012, 12:35 AM

Odin2005 (53,521 posts)

9. You are welcome, Peggy!

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Mon May 28, 2012, 12:12 AM

Occulus (20,599 posts)

8. A much, much larger and more complete tree can be found here:

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/downloadfilestol.html

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Mon May 28, 2012, 12:31 PM

hedgehog (36,286 posts)

11. So chickens and ducks split off before other birds,

I learned something new today!

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Mon May 28, 2012, 01:04 PM

Odin2005 (53,521 posts)

12. The base of the evolutionary tree is really messy.

What we do know is that the gamefowl-waterfowl group are near the base, along with tinamous and ratite birds (ostriches, emus, rheas, kiwis).

The common ancestor of living (Neornithean) birds was likely a shorebird. Before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction there was many other bird groups that were far more common than early Neornithes.

http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/aves/neornithes.html

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Mon May 28, 2012, 05:23 PM

muriel_volestrangler (99,029 posts)

13. Do you know the date of that?

There was, for instance, a Nature paper in 2010 that claimed to have established that insects are a daughter group of crustaceans, rather than a sister group (along with millipedes/centipedes), as that diagram shows.

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/insects-are-crustaceans-2/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7284/full/nature08742.html

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