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OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life.
They proposed a third “urkingdom”
—the “archaebacteria”
—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria.
Woese later called this taxon “Archea.”
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio

Greg Priest (@gregpriest.bsky.social)
OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.” AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s. 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡