{"id":7524,"date":"2018-02-12T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:21:57","slug":"tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/tree-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of Life: Celebrating the Darwin day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We celebrate today the Darwin&#8217;s day, to honor the birth of Charles Darwin\u00a0in 02\/12\/1809.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darwin stands as a major figure in the history of science. He revolutionised our understanding of nature and of the origins of man. He contributed to proving the theory of evolution against that of transmutation, using examples from zoology, botany and geology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7533\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/asset-9@4x-1024x683.png\" alt=\"Asset 9@4x\" width=\"820\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/asset-9@4x-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/asset-9@4x-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/asset-9@4x-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Royal Society in 1839 recognised his contribution as a naturalist &amp; for being &#8216;well acquainted with geology, botany, zoology &amp; many other branches of natural knowledge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a pioneering naturalist, his groundbreaking 1859 work \u2018On the Origin of Species\u2019 had a profound influence on scientific thought in the 19th century and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201cIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change\u201d. Charles Darwin<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So, let&#8217;s celebrate with\u00a0amazing visual science:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/13085676?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Big Bang Boom:\u00a0An unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life &#8230; and how it could probably end. Direction and animation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blublu.org\">BLU<\/a>\u00a0. (Jump to minute 6 to see dinosaurs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Story in 1 Minute\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZSt9tm3RoUU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A tapestry of footage tracing the cosmic and biological origins of our species, set to original music, by Simphony of Science.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tree of Life\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Darwin used the concept of a tree of life in the context of his theory of evolution. In the Origin of Species (1859) Chapter IV he presented an abstract diagram of a theoretical tree of life for species of an unnamed large genus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7527\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dv0mhdjxcaexza4.jpg\" alt=\"DV0mHDjXcAEXzA4\" width=\"738\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dv0mhdjxcaexza4.jpg 738w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dv0mhdjxcaexza4-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><br \/>\nPage from Darwin&#8217;s notebooks around July 1837. This photo shows his first sketch of an evolutionary tree\u00a0taken from his first notebook on transmutation of species. The notebook is viewable at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, to celebrate today, see this awensome interactive tree of life:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/get.carrotsearch.com\/foamtree\/demo\/demos\/large.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7532 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27657224_1903858132990426_4663663444534581987_n.png\" alt=\"27657224_1903858132990426_4663663444534581987_n\" width=\"985\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27657224_1903858132990426_4663663444534581987_n.png 985w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27657224_1903858132990426_4663663444534581987_n-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27657224_1903858132990426_4663663444534581987_n-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click and use the search box to zoom a specific node. Press esc to zoom out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To see more:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/fresh-ideas-in-science\/#.WoGwb-jwYdU\">Are you too old for science?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/tartigrades-superpowers\/#.WoGwR-jwYdU\">Tartigrades superpowers are real?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrate today the Darwin&#8217;s day, to honor the birth of Charles Darwin\u00a0in 02\/12\/1809. Darwin stands as a major figure in the history of science. He revolutionised our understanding of nature and of the origins of man. 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