Friday, 22 May 2015
quote [ What could you possibly have in common with a mushroom, or a dinosaur, or even a bacterium? More than you might think. Play NOVA's Evolution Lab to discover the evolutionary relationships that connect everything that has ever lived. ]
This is my field of study, so I'm familiar with these concepts already. I'd be interested to hear how intuitive others find this, how much they feel like they've learned by playing it, etc. (I was not involved in its creation)
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j4bb3rw0xx0r said @ 1:03pm GMT on 22nd May
Well, there goes my work day...
I dig it. I'm a programmer, but I'm also pretty well read on this kind of stuff. |
Headlessfriar said @ 6:17pm GMT on 22nd May
I got annoyed when it told me that T. rex didn't have feathers. Pretty sure all the new evidence is bearing out that they were indeed feathered animals.
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robotroadkill said @ 7:45pm GMT on 22nd May
Yeah, you're right about that.
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HoZay said @ 8:24pm GMT on 22nd May
Not in Jurassic World :(
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biblebeltdrunk said @ 4:22am GMT on 23rd May
My biggest issue was that there was no way to look up definitions of things like heteratrope and amniote like there was with the entrieson the organisms.
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