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Three truths

Timed
Branched off about 1.5 billion years ago · the last 36% of life's story
Named
≈7,500 named living species · 0.4% of all named
Weighed
Not measured (no figure in Bar-On et al. 2018).

Eukaryotes · plants and algae

Red algae

Living · roughly 7,500 described species

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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.

Includes nori, the seaweed wrapped around sushi.

Branched off
About 1.5 billion years ago (approximate)
Parent lineage
Algae and plants

Classification

  1. First common ancestor (LUCA)
  2. › Archaea
  3. › Asgard archaea
  4. › Heimdall and complex-cell line
  5. › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
  6. › Diaphoretickes
  7. › Algae and plants
  8. › Red algae

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