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News Release 15-110
NSF awards $12.3 million for research on genealogy of life
Awards offer new window into development of species, foster synthesis of biodiversity data
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NSF's Genealogy of Life awards will enable scientists to take the long view of life on Earth.
Credit: USGS
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This modern-day plot of the tree of life is based on species' genomes.
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The tree of life as viewed by scientist Ernst Haeckel in the late 1800s.
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This 1847 depiction shows the Norse tree of life, known as Yggdrasil.
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This 17th-century rendering of the tree of life comes from the Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan.
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A 12th-century illustration depicts the tree of life in the book "Lives of the Saints."
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