Discovering the Great Tree Of Life

The Earth is inhabited by millions of different life forms, and all have been connected through common ancestry in The Tree of Life. The Tree describes the diversity and interconnectedness of all living things on Earth. This video shows the current research that is being done to fully discover the Tree of Life.

Produced for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History with the support from the U.S. National Science Foundation through the CIPRes and Angiosperm Tree of Life Programs.

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Science & Technology

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• life forms
• humans
• animals
• bugs
• reptiles
• birds
• mammals
• organisms
• ancestry
• evolution
• fossils
• origin of species
• Charles Darwin
• Tree Life
• great tree
• phylogeny
• genetics
• DNA
• biology
• mathematics
• computer technology
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