Re: Kingdoms - how are they related?

Joachim Pense <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:

> Can there any order be established which kingdom evolved from which? Does
> it even make sense to discuss this sort of question?

The lowest bit of the tree of life that we can see looks something like:

     ,=============== Eubacteria
     |
     |            ,== Euryarchaeota
LCA==|  ,=Archaea=|
     `==|         `== Crenarchaeota-Eocytes
        |
        `============ Eukaryotes

...or...

     ,======== Eubacteria
     |
     |  ,===== Euryarchaeota
LCA==|  |
     `==|  ,== Crenarchaeota-Eocytes
        `==|
           `== Eukaryotes

[ These diagrams come from: http://tolweb.org/tree?group=life ]

The next bit of the tree of our ancestors goes:

             ,===== Plants
Eukaryotes==|   
            |  ,== Animals
            `==|
               `== Fungi
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