Three truths
- Timed
- Began about 1.6 billion years ago · the last 38% of life's story
- Named
- ≈230,000 named living species · 14% of all named
- Weighed
- At least ≈450 Gt C · 82% or more of all life's carbon
- Some members are not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).
Eukaryotes · single-celled groups
Diaphoretickes
Living · roughly 230,000 described species
The date or placement of this group is still debated.
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
- Branched off
- About 1.8 billion years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Complex cells (eukaryotes)
Child lineages
Classification
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project