NO INDIVIDUAL, NO TREE. “As fundamental units of evolution, individual organisms are held to be evolutionarily related within species and higher clades that, in turn, compose a single-rooted tree of life. But genomics, particularly the metagenomics of biological dark matter, reveals these truths to be, again, useful approximations restricted to the multi-cellular eukaryote realm. In fact, just as there are no “completely objective” individuals, there is no one true tree of all of life on Earth.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022