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LIFE ATLAS 3DALL LIFE. CONNECTED.
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Three truths

Timed
Began about 1.2 billion years ago · the last 29% of life's story
Named
≈1.5 million named living species · 85% of all named
Weighed
At least ≈14 Gt C · 2.5% or more of all life's carbon
Some members are not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).

Eukaryotes · single-celled groups

Opisthokonts

Living · roughly 1.5 million described species

The date or placement of this group is still debated.

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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 1.6 billion years ago (approximate)
Parent lineage
Amorphea

Child lineages

Classification

  1. First common ancestor (LUCA)
  2. › Archaea
  3. › Asgard archaea
  4. › Heimdall and complex-cell line
  5. › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
  6. › Amorphea
  7. › Opisthokonts

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