Everyone's family tree

The following website shows a sort of family tree for evolution. It shows the groupings of animals as agreed upon in peer reviewed articles.

It's a fascinating tree that shows that we are more closely related to lizards than frogs are to lizards, it shows that whales are more closely related to hippos than any other land mammal and, more strangely, that hippos are more closely related to whales than any other animal (consider pigs or elephants for example)!

An absolutely fantastic bit of work: The tree of life

 

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