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| | The Great Tree of Life |
 | | Fossil Museum presents one structure for the Tree of Life, but since the museum is devoted to collectable fossils, we will not venture far down some boughs of the tree, will not venture at all down many branches, and in the end, will not cover many twigs of life. |
 | | A tree is inherently hierarchical, as is the great "Tree of Life". |
 | | From the first growth of the tree, many a limb and branch has decayed and dropped off, and these lost branches of various sizes may represent those whole orders, families, and genera which have now no living representatives, and which are known to us only from having been found in a fossil state. |
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