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I love the specificity of the 9 million figure, 1.5 billion years ago. You set me off on some reading to find out more as it seems so interesting, but I can't
by ljf 6y ago
I love the specificity of the 9 million figure, 1.5 billion years ago.
You set me off on some reading to find out more as it seems so interesting, but I can't find a detailed figure, so I like exactness your estimate provides.
Amazing to consider what the common ancestor was like and also what our animal ancestors were like at that time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_fungi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_fungi
- divbzero 6y agoThis paper by Taylor & Berbee [1] describes one attempt at dating the divergence of clades on the evolutionary tree. Figure 2 shows the evolutionary tree inferred from analyzing the similarity of gene sequences between species. Table 1 shows estimates of the age of last common ancestors. [1]: https://taylorlab.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/taylorlab/publications/taylor2006b.pdf https://taylorlab.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/taylorlab...
- boxed 6y agoIf you're itching to see the cladistic trees of stuff check out my hobby project https://relatedhow.kodare.com https://relatedhow.kodare.com It's not perfect as the data source is rather rough, but it's by far the best source I know of.
- greeneggs 6y agoQuite a lot of detail is available at http://timetree.org/ http://timetree.org/