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News Release 14-124
NSF awards $7.4 million for research on species' evolutionary history
First NSF Genealogy of Life (GoLife) awards will provide new window into evolution of tens of thousands of species, foster synthesis of biodiversity data
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Modern-day plot of the "tree of life," based on species' sequenced genomes.
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The tree of life as viewed by Ernst Haeckel in his 1879 work "The Evolution of Man."
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Tree of life image in Darwin's 1859 book "On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection."
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An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil, or tree of life, from an Icelandic tale.
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Fold-out paleontological chart by Edward Hitchcock in his 1840 work "Elementary Geology."
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A 17th-century painting of the tree of life in the Palace of Shaki Khans in Azerbaijan.
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