Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic.
Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more…
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Monya Baker, nature.com
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