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
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. :(
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05/28/2012 4:56:13 AM PDT by
exDemMom
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