http://dylanleigh.net/enWed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:24 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2021/10/forms-of-life-part-2-cladistic-tree-of-life/Dylan Leigh<div><p>In the <a class="reference external" href="http://dylanleigh.net/posts/2019/11/forms-of-life-part-1-overview-of-biological-taxonomy/">first part of this series</a>, 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.</p> <img alt="Phylogenetic tree of all known Earth Lifeforms" src="http://dylanleigh.net/images/2020/cladistic-domains-kingdoms-overview.svg" style="height: 500px;"> <p><a href="http://dylanleigh.net/posts/2021/10/forms-of-life-part-2-cladistic-tree-of-life/">Read more…</a> (9 min remaining to read)</p></div>biologybionomenclaturegeneticsnotesreferencesciencetaxonomyhttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2021/10/forms-of-life-part-2-cladistic-tree-of-life/Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:27:12 GMThttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/02/more-evidence-that-early-human-diets-were-significantly-plantcarb-based/Dylan Leigh<div><p>An article in last month's Science, <a class="reference external" href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/87">"Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago"</a>, provides some archaeological evidence of early humans cooking and eating tuber-like vegetables.</p> <p><a href="http://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/02/more-evidence-that-early-human-diets-were-significantly-plantcarb-based/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>biochemistrybiologynutritionpseudosciencescienceveganvegetarianhttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/02/more-evidence-that-early-human-diets-were-significantly-plantcarb-based/Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:54:45 GMThttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/01/science-links-jan-2020/Dylan Leigh<div><p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/01/science-links-jan-2020/">Read more…</a> (4 min remaining to read)</p></div>biochemistrybiologychemistrylinkpilenutritionphysicspseudosciencesciencehttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2020/01/science-links-jan-2020/Fri, 31 Jan 2020 12:50:41 GMThttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2019/11/forms-of-life-part-1-overview-of-biological-taxonomy/Dylan Leigh<div><p>Part one of what I hope will be series of at least two articles on how different lifeforms differ.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://dylanleigh.net/posts/2019/11/forms-of-life-part-1-overview-of-biological-taxonomy/">Read more…</a> (7 min remaining to read)</p></div>biologybionomenclaturegeneticsnotesreferencesciencetaxonomyhttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2019/11/forms-of-life-part-1-overview-of-biological-taxonomy/Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:05:08 GMT