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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 02:39:45 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Evolution according to ...
   
   
   
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   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 03:16:17 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      Or science in a slightly larger context:
      
      
      
      www.deviantart.com/unikraken/a…
      
      Why is the mouse next to the human? It's an extract from a tree of only 3000 species. The human represents the euarchonta->primatomorpha->primates branch of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchon… and the mouse represents the gliriformes->glires->rodentia branch.
      
      That's why mice make pretty good test subjects, as they're only about 90 million years separated from us.
      
      The zoomed out tree: www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/anti… libranet.de/photos/clacke/imag…
      
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 03:32:46 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         This simplified tree is pretty nice too, from the same UTexas page.
         
         
         
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      2. Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:00:31 EST Dave Morriss

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         @clacke As a Biology undergrad in the early 1970's a lot of dendrograms (mainly Botanical) were being printed on the main university graph plotter (I think generated by FORTRAN programs). The world has changed a lot since then.

         These are magnificent!

         1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:34:18 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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            @Dave Morriss I'm just about old enough to have seen an actual plotter.
            1. Dave Morriss (perloid@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 06:42:14 EST Dave Morriss

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               @clacke I wish they were still around, they were so cool. Not fun to maintain though, and hell to run in a multi-user environment. I wrote some interface stuff for a Calcomp plotter on the university VAXcluster where I worked in the 1980's. It had to take stuff off a print queue, print a user banner on the plotter before running the plot. So many times the plot went backwards over the paper and wrote all over the last user's stuff - until we mastered the management of it.