The Tree of Life project

Published 26 October 2007 19:54

Funny how a "quick" read of your fav sites front page, can end up killing tons of time by taking you to places you didn't know existed or hadn't thought of looking up Big Smile

For example BoingBoing sent me off on a voyage after I saw a squid with strange-human-like-teeth, and i finally arrived at The Tree of Life Web Project!

Blurb from their front-page:

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.

Check it out :>

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