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Tree of Life

90 points by partycoder 9y ago

partycoder 9y ago
You can explore the tree of life including extinct branches. It is incredible to see that for each live branch there are many branches that didn't make it.
beefman 9y ago
A summary view that may be of interest: https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832ed9 https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...
- partycoder 9y ago
  And this parody: http://abstrusegoose.com/339 http://abstrusegoose.com/339
- folli 9y ago
  Seems not to be completely up to date. Eukaryotes are increasingly viewed as a subset of Archaea, instead of Archaea a subset of Prokaryotes. See for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/
- riffraff 9y ago
  TIL: there is a genus called Chaos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus)
  - zaarn 9y ago
    It seems Chaos is closely related to slimemolds, which do seem similar... (slimemolds are cooler though)
madmaze 9y ago
I have fond memories working on an interactive visualization on a MS Surface table using this data. Great to see TOL still being used!
mirimir 9y ago
This is very cool! But damn, it's complicated. Consider the root.[0] As I vaguely understand it, evolution of eukaryotes involved multiple fusions of separate lines. The basic cell came from one line. And nuclei, mitochondria and chloroplasts from other lines. I gather that there was at first symbiosis, which then became permanent. And perhaps other organelles came from other lines. Nuclei and mitochondria must have integrated first, because both plants and animals have them. And then plants got chloroplasts. I wonder whether relationships are clear enough yet to include in the tree. 0) http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1 http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1
- limbicsystem 9y ago
  This one is much easier to use and you can get common ancestors (toggle the 'relate' switch) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/evo/deeptree http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/ev... What I love about it is typing in two things that seem fairly distant like humans and fruit flies and then seeing it zoom in quite way to show that they come off a relatively late branch.
153957 9y ago
Great website which I used many times to check the precise species appearing in photos I made. Unfortunately the project seems to have stopped updating over 9 years ago (if the news page is a good indicator).
AllegedAlec 9y ago
It's such a shame that the project website hasn't been updated anymore since '11 due to funding problems. It was a huge help during my studies and I enjoyed just browsing around on it.
- partycoder 9y ago
  There is also http://eol.org/ http://eol.org/
romsson 9y ago
just found this up-to-date, interactive version of the Tree of Life > http://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr/ http://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr/
5db8db 9y ago
If you like this, you should try http://www.onezoom.org/ http://www.onezoom.org/

90 points by partycoder 9y ago

You can explore the tree of life including extinct branches. It is incredible to see that for each live branch there are many branches that didn't make it.

beefman 9y ago

A summary view that may be of interest: https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832ed9 https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...

partycoder 9y ago
And this parody: http://abstrusegoose.com/339 http://abstrusegoose.com/339
folli 9y ago
Seems not to be completely up to date. Eukaryotes are increasingly viewed as a subset of Archaea, instead of Archaea a subset of Prokaryotes. See for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/
riffraff 9y ago
TIL: there is a genus called Chaos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus)
- zaarn 9y ago
  It seems Chaos is closely related to slimemolds, which do seem similar... (slimemolds are cooler though)

madmaze 9y ago

I have fond memories working on an interactive visualization on a MS Surface table using this data. Great to see TOL still being used!

mirimir 9y ago

This is very cool! But damn, it's complicated. Consider the root.[0] As I vaguely understand it, evolution of eukaryotes involved multiple fusions of separate lines. The basic cell came from one line. And nuclei, mitochondria and chloroplasts from other lines. I gather that there was at first symbiosis, which then became permanent. And perhaps other organelles came from other lines. Nuclei and mitochondria must have integrated first, because both plants and animals have them. And then plants got chloroplasts. I wonder whether relationships are clear enough yet to include in the tree. 0) http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1 http://tolweb.org/Life_on_Earth/1

limbicsystem 9y ago
This one is much easier to use and you can get common ancestors (toggle the 'relate' switch) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/evo/deeptree http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/evolution/research#/ev... What I love about it is typing in two things that seem fairly distant like humans and fruit flies and then seeing it zoom in quite way to show that they come off a relatively late branch.

153957 9y ago

Great website which I used many times to check the precise species appearing in photos I made. Unfortunately the project seems to have stopped updating over 9 years ago (if the news page is a good indicator).

AllegedAlec 9y ago

It's such a shame that the project website hasn't been updated anymore since '11 due to funding problems. It was a huge help during my studies and I enjoyed just browsing around on it.

partycoder 9y ago
There is also http://eol.org/ http://eol.org/

romsson 9y ago

just found this up-to-date, interactive version of the Tree of Life > http://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr/ http://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr/

5db8db 9y ago

If you like this, you should try http://www.onezoom.org/ http://www.onezoom.org/