So, I’ve been exploring this “Tree of Life” project. You can explore it by clicking here. This is an pretty cool website that gives you information about different groups of species and the genetic connections between them. You really have to check it out.
The diagram starts off with the root of the tree and this includes organisims such as eukaryotes and eubacteria. It moves on to describe, in detail, the fungi, animal, plant, arthropod and vertebrae species.
Within each category is a diagram of different organisims in this apecies along with a brief description of them. It's such a great way to see the connections between all of Earth’s species. If you know where species have come from can you figure out where they're going?
And just because I love Charles Darwin:
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree… As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.”
Charles Darwin, 1859
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