Crack for phylogeny geeks

[mikkif 0]

This is a cool site, if you're into it.

Tree of Life

You can trace through speciation by divergences, rather than the traditional fixed-level system.

Find out where spiders and lobsters converge, for example!

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[mre 0]

That's a lot of long words! I'm glad there were some pictures! Big Dead Fish Homepage for instance...

[Kris 0]

It's looks like what the cool kids say is true; "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."

Kris

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[mikkif 0]

Sadly, it does not, at least not strongly.

Of course, I only know that after doing a quick search on Google, where I found this.

Disclaimer: I am generally only as smart as my ability to construct good queries.

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Sadly, it does not, at least not strongly.

Of course, I only know that after doing a quick search on Google, where I found this.

That's it...go ahead and shatter my comfortable beliefs in evolutionary science.

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Disclaimer: I am generally only as smart as my ability to construct good queries.

Whew! And I thought I was the only one. I have accepted Google as my personal savior.

Kris

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[mikkif 0]

If Google indexes enough pages, will it become the mind of God?

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If Google indexes enough pages, will it become the mind of God?

Only if they're running HAL-9000 on the back-end, and then only if they upgrade him to Linux. Preferably something in a 2.4 kernel.

Geez, I'm such a geek.

Kris
(Off to play with my SGI Octane before going to bed...)

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[mikkif 0]

Yes, you are.

By the way, they already are running Linux....

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