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Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/317.full
for those who are not afraid of the future : http://www.rael.org
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Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6105/317.full
New Way to Look at Life
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CREDIT: J. ROSINDELL AND L.J. HARMON, PLoS BIOL 10 (2012)
Ever since Charles Darwin, biologists have been building trees to show how organisms are related to one another. Now, computational biologist James Rosindell of Imperial College London and his colleagues have come up with a tree that outdoes all trees. Called OneZoom, the approach works like Google Maps: A user can drill down the tree's trunks, branches, and tips to view ever-finer details, and the structure can incorporate an infinite amount of information. (See www.onezoom.org.)
The concept is based on fractal geometry, in which patterns repeat themselves at different scales. Rosindell's open-source program embeds biological data—text, graphs, etc.—he and Luke Harmon of the University of Idaho in Moscow reported this week in PLoS Biology. “It seems to be a very elegant solution to a problem that's been widely recognized in evolutionary biology: how to have a tree of life that's visually appealing and accurate,” says Richard Ree, an evolutionary biologist at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
Researchers can use the program to view their own phylogenetic data and can add information to the nodes, such as references, links to other Web sites, and even whether a species is endangered. OneZoom is for computers only, however. The simplest way to represent the bacteria, if printed out, would be 2000 kilometers long, Rosindell says. Over the next year, a large-scale project sponsored by the National Science Foundation called the Open Tree of Life plans to produce one tree encompassing 1.8 million named species. “Until I saw [OneZoom], I was apprehensive about how we were going to do this,” Ree says. But he thinks OneZoom may offer a solution.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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