How It Works

Two species or higher taxa are queried (e.g., cat and dog).

TimeTree compares all taxa in one inclusive group (e.g., Feliformia) with those in the other group (e.g., Caniformia) to find all published times of divergence for the evolutionary split.

 

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How It Works

Two species or higher taxa are queried (e.g., cat and dog).

TimeTree compares all taxa in one inclusive group (e.g., Feliformia) with those in the other group (e.g., Caniformia) to find all published times of divergence for the evolutionary split.

 

Citing TimeTree:

Kumar S & Hedges SB (2011) TimeTree2: species divergence times on the iPhone. Bioinformatics 27:2023-2024
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Hedges SB, Dudley J & Kumar S (2006) TimeTree: a public knowledge-base of divergence times among organisms. Bioinformatics 22:2971-2972
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The TimeTree of Life from an assembly of 1610 individual timetrees. Order an offset print or download the file to print your own.

TimeTree of Life Book

Download chapters for FREE of this authoritative reference work which brings together, for the first time, experts on all major groups of organisms to assemble a timetree of life.

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