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One of two stump drops on the Evolution trail on Galbraith Mountain.
Bellingham, WA
Photo by Andrew Hicks
In the context of audio, video, and text (avoiding specific terms such as podcasting or vlogging-- the medium is the medium, visual, aural, etc), how are you evolving content to adapt to a variety of other contexts: home theaters, video game consoles, basic phones, advanced devices? How to evolve content to fit within technical and environmental limitations of specific media: podcasts in a car system vs game-play environment vs handheld computing environments.
That's just a red evolution outside my window. When will my car evolve to something like this? ;)
Tech: new 55-200mm lens allowed me to take it just from my window. Slight PS work - sharpen, levels, noise-ninja.
View Large on black - trust me :)
The product of good genes, and years of rally experience. It is a car Darwin himself would be proud of.
- Soft-focus digital filter applied.
Mark Cline has dinosaurs fighting the Civil War (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10790), but as this display shows, dinosaurs go farther back than that!
Supposedly the world's biggest dinosaurs...but, as I found out, they aren't real! What's real is that they are a pretense to present creationist, anti-evolution theories about life on Earth.
In his 1995 book "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life", philosopher Daniel Dennett refered to Darwin's theory as a "universal acid" which "eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways"
I wonder what he would be capable of today where not only we decode DNA, something that he wasn't aware of, but also sequence entire genomes (a group of italian researchers did Pinot Noir's grape two years ago).
Also his great idea appears to be far more complex as DNA sequencing is revealing some interesting things. Of course bold New Scientist dedicated the cover story to it.
Organisms are not only passing their traits down (vertically) to their offsprings, but also across huge taxonomic distances, in what is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). This horizontal swapping of genes seems to happen both at unicellular (bacterias) and at multicellular level. HGT in multicellular organisms is known as hybridisation and its most likely caused by viruses and bacterias. Turns out that cow genome contains a piece of snake DNA transfered horizontally by a virus 50 billion yrs ago - the NS goes on mentioning many other examples. I bet gene fusion will reveal that we too have random DNA pieces that support vital functions in the organism.
It seems like there's a big messy shuffling going on; "If there is a tree of life" says John Dupre' at Exeter Uni "it's a small anomalous structure growing out of the web of life".
Well it seems like the tree isn't the only pattern, if there's one at all.
2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Wallpapers
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Spettacolo con la Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X sul circuito di Vizzola
In diretta dalla pista di Vizzola con il test della Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
In diretta dalla pista di Vizzola con il test della Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
While I was waiting to see the audiologist today, I was reading about the sequencing of the chimpanzee genome and it's comparison with the human genome. Turns out the chimps are only 1.23% divergent from us.
But the image shows something that most people don't understand. Evolution is branching, not linear. And the image makes clear that we and the chimps (Chimpanzees and Bonobos) all share a common ancestor. Go back a little further and we're all related to the great apes, and back even futher and it's the orangutans.
I wonder what happened to the proposal to move chimpanzees from Pan Troglodytes to Homo Troglodytes.