In the first part of this series, I discussed taxonomic terminology such as clades and kingdoms, but didn’t go into the actual groups and the lifeforms within them. This article will provide a top-down phylogenetic overview of all lifeforms on Earth, as well as a discussion of how endosymbiosis has provided an alternate path for genetic material and evolution.
An article in last month’s Science, “Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago”, provides some archaeological evidence of early humans cooking and eating tuber-like vegetables.
In the interest of filling more blog pages and clearing out lots of bookmarks (“that’s interesting, I should post that”), here are some assorted science links I’ve come across recently, with minimal annotation.
Part one of what I hope will be series of at least two articles on how different lifeforms differ.
To start off, this article will give an overview of the hierarchical classification of biological life, with a focus on the nomenclature of biological nomenclature.