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To: exDemMom
In theory, phylogenetic trees can be constructed to include every organism from single cells up to modern multicellular organisms, but in practice, such a tree would contain so much information and have so many branches that it would be unreadable.

These people tried. It's a PDF, so you can zoom in and in and in--the fuzz you start to see around the edge after a few zooms is actually the names of species.

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rgrenyer-supertree.pdf

103 posted on 05/28/2012 12:11:18 AM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

Wow, that phylogenetic tree is truly amazing, although it looks like it includes only mammals. It’s also a little much for my poor computer to handle. :(


107 posted on 05/28/2012 4:56:13 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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