Tree of life (biology)
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The tree of life or universal tree of life is a metaphor, model and research tool used to explore the evolution of life and describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct, as described in a famous passage in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).
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See also
- Bacterial phyla
- Cladistics
- Common descent
- Coral of life
- History of evolutionary thought
- Holism
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Human timeline
- Last universal common ancestor
- Mass extinctions
- Nature timeline
- Phylogenetic tree
- Symbiogenesis
- Tree of Life Web Project
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