LOL what is a 'bush of life'? Another Christianist invention.
"Trees of Life" are essentially metaphors- they are graphical representations in general of how life it related to each other.
Maybe one day we will find out 5 different meteors with five different types of life hit one carried what turned into mammals, one birds, one reptiles, etc?
My evo website admits that tree of life and common ancestor is a hypothesis. It's not a fact like people like
Syriusly claims.
Maybe your evo website is bs
The part where they state the ToE by natural selection as gradual change over millions of years is BS. Chronological layers is BS. Change by natural selection happens rapidly not millions of years. Darwin's tree of life is BS, too, as life is a collection of bushes of life. We'll have to see where the bushes of life leads. As for common ancestors, we all have common ancestors, but we are not related in one tree. We are not related to apes species nor related to fish species. We are related via human species. Three separate bushes.
ETA: Holy guacamole. It even has a quote by the devil's chaplain Richard Dawkins.
"Genome analyses are delivering unprecedented amounts of data from an abundance of organisms, raising expectations that in the near future, resolving the tree of life (TOL) will simply be a matter of data collection. However, recent analyses of some key clades in life's history have produced bushes and not resolved trees. The patterns observed in these clades are both important signals of biological history and symptoms of fundamental challenges that must be confronted. Here we examine how the combination of the spacing of cladogenetic events and the high frequency of independently evolved characters (homoplasy) limit the resolution of ancient divergences. Because some histories may not be resolvable by even vast increases in amounts of conventional data, the identification of new molecular characters will be crucial to future progress.
“… there is, after all, one true tree of life, the unique pattern of evolutionary branchings that actually happened. It exists. It is in principle knowable. We don't know it all yet. By 2050 we should – or if we do not, we shall have been defeated only at the terminal twigs, by the sheer number of species.”
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What's Wrong with Bushes?
63]. It is perhaps for this reason that over the years, systematists have emphasized reconstructing the topology of trees, while placing much less emphasis on the temporal information conveyed by unresolved stems. Currently, phylogenetic bushes are considered experimental failures. But that is seeing the glass as half empty. A bush in which series of cladogenetic events lie crammed and unresolved within a small section of a larger tree does harbour historical information [
33,
56]. Although it may be heresy to say so, it could be argued that knowing that strikingly different groups form a clade and that the time spans between the branching of these groups must have been very short, makes the knowledge of the branching order among groups potentially a secondary concern.
For example, the lack of phylogenetic resolution at the base of the tetrapod/lungfish/coelacanth clade has not hampered in the least evolutionary research on the anatomical changes that occurred early on in the evolution of the tetrapod lineage [
64,
65]. Similarly, if the origin of most bilaterian phyla was compressed in time [
33], more than 550 million years later it may matter little to know the exact relationships between most phyla to understand the evolution of the molecular tool kit that enabled the evolution of the body plans of the 35 or so animal phyla [
66–68].
We submit that if the current efforts to assemble the TOL have, by 2050 (if not much sooner), assembled an arborescent bush of life, Dawkins' prediction will have come to fruition."
Bushes in the Tree of Life