this is amazing work, and very much a beginning:

the tree depicts the relationships among living things as they diverged from one another over time, tracing back to the beginning of life on Earth more than 3.5B years ago. 10Ks of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life — some containing upwards of 100k species — but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life.

is another nice one.

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