On: Tree of Life

[beefman]

A summary view that may be of interest:

https://gist.github.com/clumma/e9cceceb2296fd1e73968170f8832...

[partycoder → beefman]

And this parody: http://abstrusegoose.com/339

[folli → beefman]

Seems not to be completely up to date. Eukaryotes are increasingly viewed as a subset of Archaea, instead of Archaea a subset of Prokaryotes.

See for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2464739/

[riffraff → beefman]

TIL: there is a genus called Chaos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(genus)

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It seems Chaos is closely related to slimemolds, which do seem similar... (slimemolds are cooler though)