You're Basically A Mushroom

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial.

The tree of life you learned in school is wrong, even if you just graduated. We like to sort eukaryotes into big kingdoms or supergroups, but scientists can't agree what those groups should be. Here's why that's a good thing.

Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)
----------
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow  
----------
Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Kevin Bealer, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi, Silas Emrys
----------
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/
TikTok:   / scishow  
Twitter:   / scishow  
Instagram:   / thescishow  
Facebook:   / scishow  

#SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly
----------
Sources:
Special thanks to Dr. Fabien Burki, Associate Professor in Systematic Biology at Uppsala University, Sweden
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/art...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.nature.com/articles/54003... comprehensive%20tree%20(pictured).
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg1603
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s1227...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/con...

Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tr...
https://tinyurl.com/mr2bf9w9
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://tinyurl.com/464j295p
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://tinyurl.com/3y4cn5cm
https://tinyurl.com/dyzssueu
https://tinyurl.com/3mewae5d
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://tinyurl.com/3w4mzxhf
https://tinyurl.com/45969hkm
https://tinyurl.com/y9u6e932
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://tinyurl.com/2rcbt58a
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://tinyurl.com/54m69vks
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/vi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
https://tinyurl.com/mw9ckz3x