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U-M Biologist Plays Key Role in Effort to Create First Comprehensive Tree of Life

This evolutionary tree shows the relationships between more than 33,000 species of flowering plants. Trees like this will be pieced together to form an evolutionary tree of all named species of animals, plants and microorganisms as part of the Open Tree of Life project. Image credit: Stephen Smith

This evolutionary tree shows the relationships between more than 33,000 species of flowering plants. Trees like this will be pieced together to form an evolutionary tree of all named species of animals, plants and microorganisms as part of the Open Tree of Life project. Image credit: Stephen Smith

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ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2012.  Since Darwin, assembling an evolutionary tree that shows the relationships between all known species of life has been one of the grandest…

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