In this place I keep different images of the Trees of Life, I am trying to get a diverse collection of Trees. On of the problems with the Trees is that we can identify the end points, being either extant or extinct known organisms, but that it is more difficult to determine what the organisms at a junction would look like, the so-called intermediates. My own working hypothesis is that many branches represent end points of evolution, and are frozen, but streamlined versions of the intermediates. That’s why we have to focus on primitive cells that may represent the old, stable implementation of an intermediate. The rest could be traced from ontological analyses, as I think that an organisms ontology reflects its phylogeny, although not linear as Haekel thought, but branching). This view looks more like the old Trees from the 1900’s I guess. Anyway, I’ll later reanalyze my view when I have gathered Trees.
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