This website is a way to help me memorise a simplified phylogenetic tree of life. The traditional taxonomic trees are easier to understand but a bit misleading and many of the great online sources for phylogenetic trees are pretty complicated. The aim here was to have a tree that was accurate enough to get a bit of an understanding without getting too complicated and to then split it up into smaller chunks that can be memorised with Anki cloze cards. To achieve this I've mostly flattened complicated parts of the tree or parts that seemed less certain. I aimed to include some context without adding too much noise or individual detail.
Each item has the name of the group, and a link back to Wikipedia. Most will list the more well known life in the group, the IPA pronunciation of the name, a link to play the IPA pronunciation, a short description and some images.
Deep linking should work so you can collapse this section, refresh and not see it again.
This website is obviously reinventing the wheel a little but it was mostly just cleaning up notes I already had and adding a generator for the Anki cards I was already building. I'd always been a bit interested in the tree of life but I became a lot more interested in it after I began working remote and exploring National Parks soon after COVID. I quickly wanted a stable framework to quickly attach all the new things I was learning about these different ecosystems. I found a great starting place was the Zoology Youtube playlist from Professor Dave Explains. Memorising parts of it to get familiar was maybe a bit excessive but here we are.
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