Discussions uniformly praise the comprehensive and detailed nature of the mammal phylogeny, with posts describing the tree as 'massive' and 'defying belief,' highlighting broad interest and perceived significance. Tone varies from enthusiastic support to technical appreciation, reflecting both general excitement and engagement with the scientific details.
AgreementModerate agreement
Most discussions express support and excitement for the research, highlighting the significance of the new phylogenetic tree and its applications.
InterestHigh interest
Posts show high enthusiasm and curiosity about the mammal tree, with mentions of detailed evolutionary relationships and new species data, indicating strong interest.
EngagementModerate engagement
Several posts delve into methodological details, like the use of Bayesian inference and species-level data, showing moderate to deep engagement with the content.
ImpactModerate impact
There is a shared perception that this research advances understanding of mammalian evolution and has broad implications for ecology and conservation efforts, suggesting moderate impact.
Abstract in brief
This study developed a detailed evolutionary tree for approximately 6,000 living mammals using a combination of genetic data and fossil information, which helps better understand their evolutionary relationships and divergence times.
They used a "backbone-and-patch" method, applying Bayesian inference to build a core evolutionary framework and then adding detailed species-level relationships, including those missing DNA data, to create comprehensive, time-calibrated mammal trees.
The resulting phylogenetic trees are more accurate than previous models, with consistent divergence times and better-species rate estimates, making these trees publicly available to support future research in ecology, evolution, and conservation.
Mar 26, 2020 · 49 likes · 11 shares · 3,279 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
@AriBirdman They are 5-Ma divergent, but unlikely sister taxa -- see snip from our mammal-wide supermatrix tree of 2019, w Speothos (bush dog) & Chrysocyon (maned wolf) highlighted in diff clades. Those red dots mean low node support, so this question is unresolved https://t.co/GwQV3BA96C https://t.co/ahWEuiyMYx
Dec 1, 2022 · 21 likes · 2,410 followersView post →
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AlamSemenit
@AlamSemenit · X
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Aug 1, 2025 · 17 likes · 6 shares · 1,878 followersView post →
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Jessica Light
@je_light · X
Our combatants belong to 2 different mammal superorders: Laurasiatheria (Okapi) & Afrotheria (Rock Hyrax). Despite diverging from each other >80 million years (see work by @n8_upham et al.: https://t.co/mhVpECqvch), they have similarities like being prey to LEOPARDS #2023MMM
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Benarkah si kancil cerdik tapi nakal? Apakah Ia suka mencuri? Apakah mereka harus diburu tanpa ampun? Dan apakah makanan favoritnya adalah mentimun? https://t.co/5T80RgjUGX https://t.co/AThLlEiGyM
Aug 1, 2025 · 17 likes · 6 shares · 1,878 followersView post →
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島野智之(動物分類学)Satoshi SHIMANO, Professor, Hosei Univ.
@freeliving_mite · X
哺乳類全体の系統樹.哺乳綱 Mammalia をきちんとみてなかったので楽しい.
Upham et al., 2019
https://t.co/rifaR8gCMi https://t.co/iZNsztyU9c
Oct 1, 2024 · 9 likes · 2 shares · 10,043 followersView post →
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μia tαkeδa
@murmurmia · X
今回の大哺乳類展が依拠してる系統樹の元論文。
Upham et al. (2019) PLoS Biology
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation
https://t.co/HLnvCvDiPY
Our combatants belong to 2 different mammal superorders: Laurasiatheria (Okapi) & Afrotheria (Rock Hyrax). Despite diverging from each other >80 million years (see work by @n8_upham et al.: https://t.co/mhVpECqvch), they have similarities like being prey to LEOPARDS #2023MMM
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Mar 12, 2023 · 373 shares · 68 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
@jesseSeeEm @6eyes8legs Nice, yeah we 'completed' the whole mammal tree 70% DNA sampling to 100% with taxonomic imputation, but some clades like Castorimorpha (pocket mice, gophers, kangaroo rats) were at 90%+ from DNA already: https://t.co/hJdjjGQOFR
Feb 1, 2023 · 2 likes · 2,410 followersView post →
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Chris Whidden
@Chris__Whidden · X
@realGeorgeHotz For mammals in particular, see e.g. https://t.co/e80fJWFvFO . Unfortunately life is complicated and requires lots of hacks to combine DNA information from multiple genes.
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 14, 2022 · 373 shares · 512 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
@AriBirdman They are 5-Ma divergent, but unlikely sister taxa -- see snip from our mammal-wide supermatrix tree of 2019, w Speothos (bush dog) & Chrysocyon (maned wolf) highlighted in diff clades. Those red dots mean low node support, so this question is unresolved https://t.co/GwQV3BA96C https://t.co/ahWEuiyMYx
Dec 1, 2022 · 21 likes · 2,410 followersView post →
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VeritasLuxMea
@Veritas88630278 · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Nov 19, 2022 · 373 shares · 107 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
RT @science_rhyme: From bat to pig
From big to small
Their tree is BIG -
They’ve got them ALL*
Available free;
Defies belief
A supertree…
Aug 24, 2022 · 1 share · 2,410 followersView post →
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João Araújo
@joaofungo · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Jun 16, 2022 · 373 shares · 4,194 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
RT @EvolEmpiricist: Echidnas are part of the Monotremata lineage of mammals, which diverged ~180-million years ago from Theria-- the more f…
Mar 28, 2022 · 2 shares · 2,410 followersView post →
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March Mammal Madness
@MMMletsgo · X
RT @EvolEmpiricist: Echidnas are part of the Monotremata lineage of mammals, which diverged ~180-million years ago from Theria-- the more f…
Mar 24, 2022 · 2 shares · 31,103 followersView post →
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Jesse Weber
@EvolEmpiricist · X
Echidnas are part of the Monotremata lineage of mammals, which diverged ~180-million years ago from Theria-- the more familiar group of mammals that includes the marsupials and placentals #2022MMM https://t.co/vJeiR8YAfk https://t.co/cBaGMh9OVw
Mar 24, 2022 · 8 likes · 2 shares · 433 followersView post →
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Dave Regis (@drdaveexeter.bsky.social)
@DrDaveExeter · X
@therealjanisian That's a sweet idea but far from true https://t.co/xIwmkCkasj pigs #35 monkeys #42. Yet which would you rather spend time with? https://t.co/g1i29sZirF
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Jun 16, 2021 · 373 shares · 366 followersView post →
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Kevin J Olival
@nycbat · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Jun 16, 2021 · 373 shares · 3,188 followersView post →
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Megan Barkdull
@meganbarkdull_ · X
@IDsignals and actually I think that's well older than mammals: https://t.co/XGnDst4jQU
Apr 14, 2021 · 1 like · 1,246 followersView post →
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David Díez-del-Molino
@IndianaDiez · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Feb 6, 2021 · 373 shares · 1,998 followersView post →
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Eliécer E. Gutiérrez
@ee_gutierrez · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Feb 6, 2021 · 373 shares · 4,042 followersView post →
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ScienceStop
@B0tSci · X
RT @n8_upham: ... and the top 30 last authors. Here's to public data sharing & the wide-open re-uses it enables!! Thank you to the 6,069 in…
Jan 28, 2021 · 2 shares · 4,056 followersView post →
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OpenSci Talk
@OpenSciTalk · X
RT @n8_upham: ... and the top 30 last authors. Here's to public data sharing & the wide-open re-uses it enables!! Thank you to the 6,069 in…
Jan 28, 2021 · 2 shares · 4,072 followersView post →
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Nate Upham
@n8_upham · X
... and the top 30 last authors. Here's to public data sharing & the wide-open re-uses it enables!! Thank you to the 6,069 individual authors of 1,934 published studies on Genbank.
paper: https://t.co/JcXshDsx36
data: https://t.co/MSk0HxIoKq
#opendata #OpenScience #scicomm https://t.co/6PAiQczzZN
Jan 28, 2021 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 2,410 followersView post →
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Mickey Rowe
@MickeyPRowe1 · X
@LadyBenz14 @RichardDawkins A glimpse at an intellectual world you appear not to be aware of: https://t.co/vDmITa7QyN
Inferring the mammal tree https://t.co/S63ADzVHlR
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Mammals
Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation
Nathan S. Upham, Jacob A. Esselstyn, and Walter Jetz.
Exp… https://t.co/Hvvf19NJXK
A new large review by Nathan Upham, Esseltyn, and Walter Jetz puts Chiroptera on its own (HT @ed_hagen). (https://t.co/HH5Xp8ruwl) So maybe we'll have to "tapir" that sister-grouping down a bit. The tree from Upham and coworker's paper is massive! https://t.co/kgSJbZlqCj
Jan 4, 2020 · 10 likes · 3 shares · 28,395 followersView post →
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Ed Hagen
@ed_hagen · X
@johnhawks The mammal tree is based on this recent paper:
https://t.co/Ny93puYPgD
Jan 4, 2020 · 3 likes · 1 share · 9,016 followersView post →
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Marcelo Dietrich 马塞洛
@dietrich_mo · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 23, 2019 · 373 shares · 1,199 followersView post →
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Ronald Clarke
@RonaldClarke · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 19, 2019 · 373 shares · 4,498 followersView post →
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uni-verse
@science_rhyme · X
From bat to pig
From big to small
Their tree is BIG -
They’ve got them ALL*
Available free;
Defies belief
A supertree
With EVERY* leaf
*nearly
https://t.co/tppFlFsln7
@n8_upham @Mammalogists https://t.co/fICwIX3LG6
Dec 17, 2019 · 6 likes · 1 share · 29 followersView post →
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Seth Gale
@sgale268 · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 14, 2019 · 373 shares · 183 followersView post →
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Biotecaucm
@BiotuitecaUCM · X
RT @HdCiencia:
Dec 13, 2019 · 24 shares · 1,368 followersView post →
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Fernando Blanco
@FernandoBlancoS · X
New species-level #mammal phylogeny using #Bayesian inference:
https://t.co/Mw6S3L6t3p
Dec 13, 2019 · 2 likes · 1,177 followersView post →
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Andrea Chiocchio
@Syntomis · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 12, 2019 · 373 shares · 73 followersView post →
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Henri Bouwmeester
@BouwmeesterHb · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 12, 2019 · 373 shares · 1,038 followersView post →
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Armando Briz López
@bisturi52 · X
Enrique Coperías (@CienciaDelCope) twitteó:
El nuevo árbol de la vida de los mamíferos. https://t.co/xmaTOddqzd https://t.co/FVhgV0QEGe https://t.co/PTR65pDoU3
El nuevo árbol de la vida de los mamíferos. https://t.co/wXoMt6PAi2 https://t.co/g2vyJmH4Af
Dec 12, 2019 · 8 likes · 58,915 followersView post →
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The Bohórquez Lab
@gutbrains · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 12, 2019 · 373 shares · 2,270 followersView post →
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Manuel Hernández Fernández
@hdezfdez · X
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution and conservation https://t.co/HK2DpGuUxT
Dec 11, 2019 · 1 like · 1,286 followersView post →
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javier
@javyriverac · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 10, 2019 · 373 shares · 131 followersView post →
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Vania Tejeda G.
@tsonkirii · X
RT @n8_upham: Thrilled to announce our PLOS Biology article on a new tree of life for 5,911 species of Mammalia! This is an evolutionary ro…
Dec 10, 2019 · 373 shares · 928 followersView post →
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LSU Museum of NatSci
@LSU_MNS · X
New paper co-authored by #LSUMNS Curator @JakeEsselstyn. "Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation." https://t.co/WDiVzpmdHo
Dec 10, 2019 · 6 likes · 1,686 followersView post →
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Dataemia
@Dataemia · X
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation - https://t.co/lyYZenUoaB https://t.co/Mv40jHYA6x
Trees of the park, and elsewhere: the tree of life........Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation......https://t.co/kp5IDaEb7k ....open access...... (Image: the authors) https://t.co/jX7lsFYXv3
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation
https://t.co/tb9R6HloFG
Dec 5, 2019 · 1 share · 4,038 followersView post →
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Sociedad Colombiana de Mastozoología - SCMas
@SCMas2 · X
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolutio ... https://t.co/j3YjHzuaCv #PLOSBiology. con an visualizacion en: https://t.co/7FTUV8nSig
Dec 5, 2019 · 2 likes · 1 share · 1,327 followersView post →
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Fabrice Leclerc
@leclercfl · X
Top #evolution story: Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation https://t.co/yVbIOgbkhi, see more https://t.co/vBI5qAWI96
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation https://t.co/CFaVXpnqco @PLOSBiology
#PLOSBiology: Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolutio ... https://t.co/P7AoosxKY2
Dec 4, 2019 · 10 likes · 7 shares · 32,108 followersView post →
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Earth Soldier Lifestyle
@imagine_garden · X
RT @Rajee_Rajakumar: Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of #phylogenies for questions in #ecology , #evolution , and #conservati…
Dec 4, 2019 · 1 share · 6,609 followersView post →
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Rajendhran Rajakumar
@Rajee_Rajakumar · X
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of #phylogenies for questions in #ecology , #evolution , and #conservation https://t.co/CjhCLUjAUD
Dec 4, 2019 · 1 share · 1,264 followersView post →
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Laboratorio de Mastozoología - UdeC
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