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Published: 2008-04-14 20:45:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 22179; Favourites: 236; Downloads: 0
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A very low-res cladogram of all life on Earth.Related content
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wow! this is an incredible piece of work indeed!
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You are welcome! I can't imagine the ammount of work that went into it, but why am I surprised it was you who did it after creating a top notch exobiology project. That needs a hell of a thought and dedication!
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Very low resolution, yet far to large to fit my screen in anywhere near the full size. That in itself cleverly communicates something about the diversity of extant organisms.
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Thank you! The actual print of this image measured 3 by 3.5 meters, and looked like a huge mandala...
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Only extant life, from what I can see, right?
Still very clever and nice.
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Thanks! Only extant life is shown, as extinct critters cannot be analyzed for their DNA.
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Ah, well then I see why. Just curious, really. And I should've known that'd be the reason.
Still... no whooly mammoths ;.;
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You presented an amazing amount of information in such an artistic way. Absolutely amazing.
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Thanks! I'm a big fan of your work as well...
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Even with so much diversity, all I can say is that all living things are connected.
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Fabulous! The invertebrates on the right side must have been the most difficult part.
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Actually, the plants were the hardest bit - due to the difficulty of finding good images.
Invertebrates were easy and fun to draw.
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This is really well done! The consistency of style for a project that took so long is impressive, and the flowing composition is a nice metaphor for life itself.
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Absolutely fascinating, this piece. I'm no scientist, but I can appreciate the idea that all life on Earth evolved from a single organism.
I would like to send this along to a biologist friend of mine; she would be extremely thrilled to see something like this.
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This is outrageously, baffleingly massive.
Lordy, this is crazy huge. It must have taken quite a bit of research!
You are truly a man of science!
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It's always nice to see a big cladogram 
I'm no expert, but recently saw this video:
[link]
(an environmental microbiologist talks about energy conversion in the microbial world, especially termite guts). He showed a tree of life where animals, plants and so on were all on a small branch of a huge tree which went in different directions.
Your tree is very great for getting an overview, but isn't this distortion misleading, too?
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For future reference, a platypus' tail is dorsally flattened as opposed to laterally flattened. I understand that references for platypus anatomy are scanty outside australia, Tiina on the spec list had the same problem.
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It is actually dorsally flattened in that picture.
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It's a bit oversimplified to qualify as a scientific illustration but I still really enjoy it on an artistic and social level. Imagine the awe of someone who knows nothing about evolution being able to see how even squids and humans have a common ancestor! I would orgasm to see this as a complete piece as a 3D helix shape. Speaking of comprehensive chronicling of organisms, have you heard of the Encyclopedia of Life? [link]
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Better yet, imagine the individual drawings sculpted out of steel wire and arranged on an actual tree... I've heard of this site, but it's a bit cluttered and a little inaccurate. Most of its content can already be found on tolweb.org.
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Cluttered and inaccurate? It's a work in progress. It won't be "finished" for years to come.
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I know, but for example, they have errors like the picture of a basilisk lizard in the place of an amphisbaenan. I'm sure the differences will be smoothed out in due time.
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It is now, actually. Was that an indiana jones quote?
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Wow! it is? and that wasn't an Indiana Jones quote, in which one do they say it? the old ones or in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
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Other than that obviously crippling flaw
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heheh, indeed! but cycliophorans are not the only absent group in this cladogram. It has some sweeping generalizations due to the width of its scope.
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Purely magnificent!
I would only suggest doing something with the interactive version scrolling back to the upper-left corner everytime one chooses a creature to read about
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Gahhh yes. Anyone knows any coding to figure that out?
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Awesome! That's the low-res, and it slowed my computer down.
Congratulations again on the exhibit!
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