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Singapore Botanical Garden in January 2007.
We spent several hours in the Botanical Garden on our first day in Singapore. It is a beautiful garden.
A ‘forest’ of Giant Clubmosses is placed amidst over 40 species of cycads in the Evolution Garden. Lepidodendron is an extinct genus of tree-sized plants that were abundant on Earth during the Carboniferous Period, approximately 300 million years ago. They grew in great swamps where dead plants accumulated and over millions of years were converted to coal under heat and pressure. They are also called ‘scale trees’, because the fossilised remains of their bark resembles scaly reptile skin.
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.
Eldridge has a collection of over 400 Cornets, the tree on the bottom describes the 'major species'. Interesting example of how technological evolution parallels biological evolution.
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The first edition of the new monthly event "GeekyScience". One a month, scientific experts come to discuss an overarching theme.
This month, we did Evolution.
Dr. Kat Arney - Tree Trunks & Tumours: The Evolution of Cancer
Dr. Katie Slocombe - The evolution of language: what do chimpanzees have to say?
Dr. Adam Rutherford - From Chuck D to Chuck D: Evolution, Synthetic Biology and the History of Hip-Hop
Compered, magicked and sung by Helen Arney.