The passing of the Tree of Life (TOL) project
David Maddison wrote in his TOL web page:
“The Tree of Life Web Project began its journey almost 40 years ago, and was formally announced in early 1996. It has served thousands of pages of information about the evolutionary tree of life and the characteristics of organisms that evolved along its branches; this content was contributed and curated by hundreds of biologists who were experts in particular branches of life.
“I no longer have the resources to keep the project functioning as it has been, and thus it will be retired soon (by the time you read this, it may have been retired). I have hopes that it will be reborn in a more primitive way as a series of static web pages that capture a snapshot of the content it contained when it ended. If so, you should eventually see, at its old web address http://tolweb.org, a basic version of the content.”
The Open Tree of Life (https://opentreeoflife.org)
My comment:
“I took inspiration from the TOL project to build the ReptileEvolution.com project: http://reptileevolution.com/ It is also a work-in-progress with new taxa added over time. I came to realize that 1) genomic results in deep time do not match phenomic results that include fossils. 2) deep time genomic results match dissimilar taxa for reasons not yet apparent. 3) The biggest problem in trait-based paleontology is taxon exclusion. That is demonstrated by adding taxa (2330+ at the time of this writing) to the large reptile tree and large pterosaur tree (see link above). Adding taxa resolves many issues and nests all more or less complete enigma taxa. 4) Paleontologists tend to discredit others who discover something using phylogenetic analysis, apparently because when that happens traditional taxon omissions are revealed. Thank you for your efforts and insight.”
Source: https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/the-passing-of-the-tree-of-life-tol-project/
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