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Ernst Haeckel
's "
Tree of Life
" from his 1879 book
The Evolution of Man
, which depicts a literal interpretation of
Charles Darwin
's
metaphorical
description of the pattern of universal
common descent
. In
early evolutionary thought
,
humans
were considered the pinnacle of
evolution
, and thus "Man" is at the crown of the tree. In the
modern synthesis
, evolution is understood to be an ongoing process with no defined endpoint. The tree of life is still considered valid for
eukaryotes
, but
prokaryotic
life forms are capable of
horizontal gene transfer
, meaning that the concept gives an incomplete picture of life's evolution.
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