Secular Café: Finding the Tree of Life -- how all the Earth's biota is related

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Finding the Tree of Life -- how all the Earth's biota is related May 24th 2012, 21:25 Researchers aim to assemble the tree of life for all 2 million named species Quote: A new initiative aims to build a grand tree of life that brings together everything scientists know about how all living things are related, from the tiniest bacteria to the tallest tree. There are bits and pieces of it all over the scientific literature, including a lot of work on the more familiar species and higher-level relationships, but a lot of it is not very database-friendly. Quote: But now, thanks to a three-year, $5.76 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a team of scientists and developers from ten universities aims to make that a reality. It will be the ultimate supertree, a tree constructed from several sources of data. The project's home page: OPEN TREE OF LIFE Not very much there now, it must be said. But if you are impatient, you can go to Tree of Life Web Project - rather technical History of life through time

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