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Tree Of Life Has Lost A Branch, According To Largest Genetic...

geojim56 rated 9 months ago
From the page: "Norwegian and Swiss biologists have made a startling discovery about the relationship between organisms that most people have never heard of. The Tree of Life must be re-drawn, textbooks need to be changed, and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of...

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jugginator rated 8 months ago
Stolen from the University of Oslo
strandline rated 9 months ago
From the page: ""The Tree of Life tells the story of life on Earth, and our research can say something about how quickly life developed. Our discovery suggests that there were fewer big "events" than we have previously assumed in the development of higher life forms. The more we know about the branches on the Tree of Life, the more we can find out about life's Big Bang, the beginning of life on Earth," says Shalchian-Tabrizi."
geojim56 rated 9 months ago
From the page: "Norwegian and Swiss biologists have made a startling discovery about the relationship between organisms that most people have never heard of. The Tree of Life must be re-drawn, textbooks need to be changed, and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of medicines."(left) The four new super-groups of life are Plants (green and red algae, and plants; Opisthokonts (amoebas, fungi, and all animals--including humans; Excavates (free-living organisms and parasites; SAR (the new main group, an abbreviation of Stramenophiles, Alveolates, and Rhizaria, the names of some of its members). (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oslo)
Maxismax rated 9 months ago
The four new super-groups of life are Plants (green and red algae, and plants; Opisthokonts (amoebas, fungi, and all animals--including humans; Excavates (free-living organisms and parasites; SAR (the new main group, an abbreviation of Stramenophiles, Alveolates, and Rhizaria, the names of some of its members). (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Oslo)