Cladogram

About the ToL Navigation Picture

We've been getting a lot of inquiries about the tree of life picture on our home page. It is important to note that the major function of this picture is to help visitors to the ToL web site to quickly navigate to pages of some of the major groups of organisms. In order to serve this purpose, we had to use a greatly simplified representation of the tree of life.
http://tolweb.org/tree/home.pages/aboutoverview.html





Dennis Wall's Phylomonography

Dennis P. Wall presents his dissertation work on mosses in a novel way, using technology to reflect his philosophy of phylogenetics and to present the supporting evidence, including pictures of characters and a distribution map of specimen locations. This representation is similar to a standard tree diagram structure, but leverages interactivity to compress the display and also provide access to supporting information.







UCMP's Evolution website for teachers

The new teacher's resource website on evolution, evolution.berkeley.edu, presents a simple visualization of our place in the tree of life. Shown in-the-round, the tree emphasizes the three domains of life, replacing earlier ideas of "kingdoms." This representation uses attractive images and colors, labels branches at a resolution that will be digestable by most viewers, giving branches proportional space, and displays time/evolutionary distance by radiating out from the center of a circle.


http://www.rebeccashapley.com/cipres/gallery.htm