Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Drawing the tree of life

Since I can't seem to find my copy of the Origin of the Species, which is very relevant to the post on Natural Selection that I'm working on, I figured I'd link you to this NY Times articles about visualizing the tree of life.  It's kinda cool when you read an article in the NY Times and you've personally met most of the people mentioned in the article.

Here's the link

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/science/10tree.html?ex=1391922000&en=7f8374c58013a4f5&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

1 comment:

  1. “It would be a ‘tricorder’-like device, able to identify any species on Earth in the field,” he said.

    And once again Star Trek is there. :D

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