HUGE-B 500-NCBI PGT - a photo on Flickriver

[B: 8 rr, 245 phh, 694 cll, 2,535 oo, 26,019 ff, 234,173+†63,757 gg, ∼1.5E6 spp]

Scias characterem non constituere genus, sed genus characterem; characterem fluere e genere, non genus e charactere; characterem non esse ut genus fiat, sed ut genus noscatur.¹

Such expressions as that famous one of Linnæus¹ seem to imply that something more is included in our classification than mere resemblance. I believe that something more is included and that propinquity of descent — the only known cause of the similarity of organic beings — is the bond, hidden as it is by various degrees of modification, which is partially revealed to us by our classifications.²

"No use to them," said Alice; "but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?" ³

Sed turrigeros elephantorum miramur umeros taurorumque colla et truces in sublime iactus: tigrium rapinas, leonum iubas, cum rerum natura nusquam magis quam in minimis tota sit. Quapropter, quæso, ne nostra legentes, quoniam ex his spernunt multa, etiam relata fastidio damnent, cum in contemplatione naturæ nihil possit videri supervacuum.⁴

To a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects.⁵

A synthetic HUGE-B 3D supertree representing a real-time geotracking of terrestrial Biota evolution, limited to lineages containing at least 500 descendants. Colors from yellow to cyano represent proportion from 0.0 to 1.0 of NCBI lineages.

The quasispecies model is a description of the process of the Darwinian evolution of certain self-replicating entities within the framework of physical chemistry. Put simply, a quasispecies is a large group or cloud of related genotypes that exist in an environment of high mutation rate, where a large fraction of offspring are expected to contain one or more mutations relative to the parent. This is in contrast to a species, which from an evolutionary perspective is a more-or-less stable single genotype, most of the offspring of which will be genetically accurate copies.

WBST (World Biota Simplified Tree)

NOTES

1. C. Linnæus 1751: Philosophia botanica, c. VI, § 169.4, p. 119.
2. C. Darwin 1859: On the origin of species, c. XIII, p. 413-414.
3. C.L. Dodgson 1871: Through the looking-glass, c. III, p. 55.
4. C.P. Secundus 79: Naturalis historia, t. IV, l. XI, § 1.4, p. 373.
5. R.M. May 1988: How many species are there on Earth, p. 1446.

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A.J.J. Rees & al. 2020: 234,173 + †63,757 Biota gg.
R.M. Moore & al. 2020: Iroki phylogenetic utility.
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M.J. Benton 2020: History of life.
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Taken in: Italia / Lazio / Roma / Pinciano (show map)

Taken on: September 6, 2015

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HUGE-B = Hyperpolar Ultrametric Global Ecophylogenetic Biochronocladogram

MRP = Matrix Representation with Parsimony

SAR = Stramenopiles + Alveolata + Rhizaria

AOA = Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

TACK = Thaumarchaeota + Aigarchaeota + Crenarchaeaota + Korarchaeota

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