Tree of Life Web Project

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

Each page contains information about a particular group, with pages linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.

生命之树网络项目（ToL）汇聚了全球生物学家和自然爱好者共同协作的智慧结晶。该项目在超过10,000个万维网页面上，为公众提供了关于生物多样性、不同生物群体特征及其进化历史（系统发育）的详尽信息。每一页都针对特定的生物群体进行了详细阐述，页面之间通过层级链接，形似生命进化的树状结构。从地球上所有生命的根基出发，沿着不断分叉的枝干延伸至单个物种，生命之树项目因而生动地描绘了所有生物之间的遗传联系。