Scripts to produce a phylogeny of life forms depicted by emoji.

This project was inspired by https://github.com/ghuertaramos/PlantPhylomoji.

Install the requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Download emoji sets

./download_sets.sh

Generate phylogenetic trees

python3 src/make_svg_tree.py

I decided not to include some ambiguous or species-wise redundant emoji:

• 🌱, could be virtually any dicot plant
• 🌿, sometimes interpreted as fern
• 🍀, same species as ☘, but some interpret it as Marsilea quadrifolia
• 🐂, arguably same species as 🐄
• 🐏, same species as 🐑
• 🐔, same species as 🐓
• 🐩, same species as 🐕
• 🐛, in some depictions a caterpillar, in others various other arthropods, not necessarily insects
• 🥬, ambiguous, either cabbage or lettuce
• 🌴, less ambiguously depicted as 🥥
• 🍏, same species as 🍎
• 🌸, hard to distinguish from 🍒

Face emoji like 🐭 or 🐮 are not included if they have a full-body counterpart.

Some included emoji might be not obvious:

• 🦠 -- bacteria
• 🐦 -- songbirds
• 🧽 -- sponges
• 🚬 -- tobacco
• 🍺 -- hops
• ☕ -- coffee
• 🧉 -- yerba mate
• 🍵 -- tea (Camellia sinensis)
• 🍫 -- cocoa
• 🌼 -- daisy (although depictions in various sets may be different)