A cheeseburger is a cow, wheat, yeast and some garden plants, mostly shallow branches. Add kelp, a sea urchin and a mushroom and the score jumps, because those lineages split from ours over a billion years ago. Variety within a species adds nothing

How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵
mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html