{"id":17546,"date":"2015-09-20T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/tree-of-life-for-2-3-million-species-released"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:23:08","slug":"tree-of-life-for-2-3-million-species-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/tree-of-life-for-2-3-million-species-released","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tree of life\u2019 for 2.3 million species released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tree-of-life-for-2-3-million-species-released.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Version 1.0, Tree of Life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTens of thousands of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life\u2014some containing upwards of 100,000 species\u2014but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A first draft of the \u201ctree of life\u201d for the roughly 2.3 million named species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes\u2014from platypuses to puffballs\u2014has been released.<\/p>\n<p>A collaborative effort among eleven institutions, 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 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of smaller <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/trees\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"textTag\">trees<\/a> have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life\u2014some containing upwards of 100,000 species\u2014but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life. The end result is a digital resource that available free online for anyone to use or edit, much like a \u201cWikipedia\u201d for evolutionary trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-09-tree-life-million-species.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1.0, Tree of Life. \u201cTens of thousands of smaller trees have been published over the years for select branches of the tree of life\u2014some containing upwards of 100,000 species\u2014but this is the first time those results have been combined into a single tree that encompasses all of life.\u201d A first draft of the \u201ctree [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69524,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17546\/revisions\/69524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}