Circle of Life: Non-anthropocentric evolutionary tree - by Brenda de Groot

Circle of Lifevisualising a non-anthropocentric evolutionary tree of life

Circle of Life - Brenda de Groot illustration
Circle of Life: Non-anthropocentric evolutionary tree - by Brenda de Groot

Credit original image that inspired this illustration: David M. Hillis, Derrick Zwick and Robin Gutell, University of Texas at Austin.

This large “tree of life,” crowded as it is, lays out just 3,000 of the 1.8 million known species based on RNA sequences.

Hillis et al. (2007)

This illustration also appeared on the cover of Vegan Magazine, winter edition 2019-2020.

Vegan magazine cover illustration Brenda de Groot