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The Tip Of The Flagellum

No sooner had I written about the universe giving us the flagellum than Craig Venter, given to us by the universe, has announced that artificial life — or at least a first synthetic genome — is almost here. Perhaps we’ll need to add a branch back to the family tree of life! Or start [...]

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The Tree Of Life

The tree of life has been reorganized. That is the good news. The bad news is that you and I are now opisthokonts. Actually, we were all along. It sounds worse than it is.
You can see your pedigree in a nice tree here, but this tree now needs to be simplified a little.
It’s an [...]

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