section_path: Evolution/Phylogeny
section_name: Phylogeny
paragraph_text: Phylogeny
  
  By 2014, a rough consensus started to emerge from the phylogenomic studies of the previous two decades. The majority of eukaryotes can be placed in one of two large clades dubbed Amorphea (similar in composition to the unikont hypothesis) and the Diphoda (formerly bikonts), which includes plants and most algal lineages. A third major grouping, the Excavata, has been abandoned as a formal group as it is paraphyletic. The proposed phylogeny below includes only one group of excavates (Discoba), and incorporates the 2021 proposal that picozoans are close relatives of rhodophytes. The Provora are a group of microbial predators discovered in 2022.
  
  One view of the great kingdoms and their stem groups. The Metamonada are hard to place, being sister possibly to Discoba, possibly to Malawimonada.