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However, despite this vast, disparate tree of life, every living thing falls into one of three large categories, or “domains”—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. All of the usual stuff we think ...

Since the late 1980s, all life forms have been split into three groups on the phylogenetic tree of life: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes and archaea have long been considered “sister ...