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Researchers from multiple institutions have come together to publish Earth's most complete family tree to date, illustrating the evolutionary relationships between about 2.3 million named species of lifeforms over the course of roughly 3.5 billion years on the planet.
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While exhaustive, scientists still have a long way to go. That's because it's believed there are currently about 8.7 million species on the planet today and countless others from Earth's past that are yet to be catalogued.In an effort to expand the tree even further over time, the researchers, who collaborated from 11 institutions, have put their work online at Open Tree of Life -- a massive and open-access digital depository where anyone can download, view and edit the tree -- a kind of "Wikipedia" for evolutionary trees.
It's an impressive feat to accomplish in 25 years, considering it took 90 years to complete the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, another large cataloguing project. The graphic is worth looking at, too.
(Score: 1) by caffeine on Thursday September 24 2015, @11:10PM
That is easy to solve. We just add a branch for unicorns and talking snakes and they will be so busy saying "I told you so, even the evolutionists agree they exist" that won't have time to make edits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 25 2015, @07:46AM
But make sure the unicorns and talking snakes died out more than 6000 years ago. That will confuse them! :-)