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News Release 12-106
Assembling, Visualizing and Analyzing a Tree of All Life
National Science Foundation grants will bring together what's known about how species are related
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The "Open Tree of Life" is one of three major new scientific projects funded by the NSF.
Credit: NSF National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
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Tree of life showing bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes such as humans.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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A tree of life based on modern genetic analyses; the small black line from which the tree branches is the common ancestor of all life on Earth.
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A botanical tree of life, from amaryllis to tree fern.
Credit: U.S. Botanic Garden
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A tree of life from the 1879 work "The Evolution of Man."
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This late 1830s sketch from Charles Darwin's notebook is likely the very first evolutionary tree.
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