The visualisation of life at OneZoom.org shows all branch points as a split into two branches. Yet the Open Tree of Life, from whom much of the data is gathered, have many examples of large polytomies, where many branches emerge from a single point. These are almost entirely cases where a large number of species have been classified by taxonomists into a single group (say the ragworts), but where the OpenTree has not incorporated any extra studies that can resolve relationships between species within the group.
Influential yet unresolved branch points on the Open Tree of Life
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