Tag: evolutionary biology
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Metaphor, image and now visualisation: Darwin’s tree of life
Yesterday (October 22, 2012) I came across this tweet: “Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins Zooming into the Tree of Life. Magnificent piece of software, brilliantly intuitive visualisation of the tree of life http://bit.ly/PJyox3 Retweeted by Eric Sawyer” This led me to a fascinating interactive and fractal representation of the tree of life (or phylogenetic tree or evolutionary…