Tree of Life · Living World

TREE OF LIFE SIMULATION

▸ Tracing back to the last universal common ancestor (LUCA)…

▸ Building the trunk of the phylogenetic tree

▸ Splitting 3 domains: Bacteria · Archaea · Eukaryotes

▸ Linking kingdom branches: Protists · Fungi · Plants · Animals

▸ Calibrating the molecular clock (4 billion years)…

▸ Ready — Online. ✅

Geological clock

🕰️ Evolution over time

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Notes

All life today traces back to one common ancestor (LUCA, ~3.8 billion yrs). Evidence: a shared DNA genetic code, ribosomes & ATP. The higher up the tree, the more it branches → species diversity.

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Drag "Time-lapse" to watch the tree grow from LUCA → now · pick a "Scenario" · click a branch or concept for details

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Biodiversity over time (number of branches) living branchesdomains split