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The info on that site is... not even close to correct. Choanozoa as the sister group of all other life including bacteria and archaea? All eukaryotes broken int
by emernic 3y ago
The info on that site is... not even close to correct. Choanozoa as the sister group of all other life including bacteria and archaea? All eukaryotes broken into Opisthokonta, Chloroplastida, and Amoebozoa? Maybe the stuff on metazoans is more accurate, but in the big picture of the genetic diversity of life on earth they're barely a footnote.
- oever 3y agoThe tree only shows species that are selected and their closest common ancestors. The relationships are obtained from opentreeoflife.org.
- oever 3y agoHere's an example: two bird species selected via uid share as most recent_common ancestor Passeriformes. https://sol.vandenoever.info/?uids=695336,1093902 https://sol.vandenoever.info/?uids=695336,1093902 When another bird species is added, one more closest common ancestor pops up: https://sol.vandenoever.info/?uids=695336,1065606,1093902 https://sol.vandenoever.info/?uids=695336,1065606,1093902 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor