Website review: Tree of Life Web Project
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•73 reviews since Jun 21, 2002
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•tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
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ms-katalyzt rated 4 months ago- The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Stauroteuthis (a group of octopods) "Stauroteuthids are peculiar, gelatinous cirrates with a mantle opening that forms a complete tube around the funnel...."
- StephenGB rated 6 months ago
- Fascinating and authoritative site that's also beautifully designed.
- xineann rated 6 months ago
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The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
Each page contains information about a particular group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs, phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or the salamanderfish of Western Australia). ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
- knowledgeself rated 6 months ago
- This is a great scientific tool
- javamanjoe rated 6 months ago
- Life On Earth--Cool!
- arachnophile rated 9 months ago
- Your one-stop-shop to find out about interesting species and phylogeny. It's got some of the best and most up-to-date information about squids, I've ever seen (if you're into that sort of thing). ;)
- b-bear rated 14 months ago
- Learn about The Tree of Life! The Tree is a wonderful metaphor for biologists to show the connections between all things that live. The Tree of Life Web Project is a great site, and it makes me wonder about our place in it all. Yet I have always felt unsatisfied about the way in which biology places humans on The Tree of Life. We humans sit rather inconspicuously amongs the other mammals. In biology classes when I was younger, I found myself ignoring the teacher and trying to draw a truly representative Tree of Life in my notebook. This tree was a horrific and unnatural looking thing, a twisted, sick and parasitic tree. It made me want to vomit - and that may have been because of more than just my bad drawing. But I grew to love this disordered thing. Humans, I claim, need to be better represented on The Tree of Life - along with their closest living relatives, the parasites (he he!). But I am not a biologist. And biologists would think I am insane. I would just like to see a tree that represents what the French parasitologist Claude Combes calls 'symbioses': this is where the branches on the tree cross over and touch each other, where species encounter each other, and where creatures decide to be commensual, to mutually feed, to share, or to exploit and deprive. How many of these symbioses, these touches, do humans make? The number is immense, and troubling. How many of these touches are good, respectful and natural? To be representative and more important in today's world, I think biology must develop a truly ethical concept of humanity - for good and for bad. Stop cutting up frogs and mice. Condemn the slaughter and the foul experiments. Uphold respect.
- dogwater rated 14 months ago
- Interesting web project
- EddieStarr rated 15 months ago
- Thank God E Allergies don't exist yet.
- TMacForsyth rated 16 months ago
- Studying animal diversity in Biology class right now. This supplements our text nicely.
