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The tree of life is an almost impossible puzzle - a scientific goal as ambitious as any other. Solving this problem is fascinating in its own right. But the tree of life is the framework we need to reconstruct the entirety of thefour billion year history of life.

The characters of the book are the billion species of life on earth (not just animals!) and the scientists who, over 2 millennia, have thought how we might discover how the many species of life are related. The story lines are as many and as diverse as the billion branches of the tree of life.

The Tree of Life shows what I do: how evolution has left us the clues we need to reconstruct the tree of life; how nature sometimes conspires to make this a difficult and fascinating problem; and, above all, how knowing the tree of life is the key to telling the history of all life on earth.

Comparing phoronid and bryozoan genomes revealed seven irreversible "fusion-with-mixing" events—unique chromosomal signatures showing that phoronids and bryozoans are sister groups, finally resolving a century-old debate. (5/5)

"many a reader will start the book with some small interest in evolutionary biology, and finish it with a sense of wonder at how evolution has generated all the biodiversity we know from the past, see around us today, and imagine will arise in the future."

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