This is quite incredible: scientists have identified a new kind of organism that doesn't fit into any known kingdom of life, and is more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi.https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823 …
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But we base those classifications on something objective, in this case on the cladistic taxonomy of evolutionary lineage. These newly identified organisms belong to a previously unknown lineage of evolution.
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True, there are many ways to classify organisms. But what makes this story newsworthy is that its departure from the cladistic classification necessitates a new branch of the evolutionary family tree, so to speak.
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