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LIFE ATLAS 3DALL LIFE. CONNECTED.
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Three truths

Timed
Began about 1.1 billion years ago · the last 26% of life's story
Named
≈190,000 named living species · 11% 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 · plants and algae

Green plants

Living · roughly 190,000 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 1.5 billion years ago (approximate)
Parent lineage
Algae and plants

Child lineages

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. › Green plants

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