Massive, Huge tree of life.

[Odin2005]

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

http://tellapallet.com/TreeOfLife.pdf

[BlueJazz]

1. Love it ! Thanks for posting.

[AlecBGreen]

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

[Odin2005]

4. ACK, it does look like Jeb!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Beautiful! Thanks! nt

[iemitsu]

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

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

[EvolveOrConvolve]

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

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

[iemitsu]

10. thanks, i made it larger too.

but i was dumb enough to post my first reaction.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Wow, this is wonderful!

Thank you so much for bringing it to us.

[Odin2005]

9. You are welcome, Peggy!

[Occulus]

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

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

[hedgehog]

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

I learned something new today!

[Odin2005]

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

[muriel_volestrangler]

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