http://dylanleigh.net/enThu, 08 Jan 2026 15:46:12 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>biologybionomenclaturecladisticsgeneticsnotesphylogeneticsreferencesciencetaxonomyhttp://dylanleigh.net/posts/2021/10/forms-of-life-part-2-cladistic-tree-of-life/Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:27:12 GMT