Monday, February 09, 2009

Scientists Crunch Data to Build an Evolutionary Tree of Life

For years now researchers have sequenced DNA from thousands of species from jungles, tundras and museum drawers. They have used supercomputers to crunch the genetic data and have gleaned clues to how today’s diversity of species evolved over the past 450 million years. There’s just one problem. They have no way to visualize it...

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