A fisheye view of the tree of life

Check out A fisheye view of the tree of life.

After you click over to the website, you can mouse over the different parts of the tree for solid answers to questions such as:

• What is a fish?
• Why are humans in the fish tree?
• What are googly-eyed fish?

This is part of U.C. Berkeley’s excellent (if a little dated) Understanding Evolution website.

Here are a few more links to articles on the Evolution site that might be helpful in understanding our reefs.  Click through and read them!!  🙂

• It Takes Teamwork: How Endosymbiosis Changed Life on Earth
• Mantis shrimp shoulder their evolutionary baggage and bluff
• Understanding evolutionary trees
• Origin of modern humans: Multiregional or out of Africa?