Thursday, December 20, 2012

Who's Zooming Who? Frogs, Fractals and the Tree of Life

As ecologists assemble ever larger parts of the tree of life, whose evolutionary branches connect the millions of species on Earth, they need better ways of presenting and organising information. Now, biologist Dr James Rosindell of Imperial College London has developed a revolutionary way of visualising the tree of life. He will demonstrate his new software, which could evolve into a biological equivalent of Google Earth, at this week's British Ecological Society Annual Meeting at the University of Birmingham.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121217234946.htm