Thursday, January 4, 2007

Who are you?

Simple, you are a proud member of our biosphere, neatly boxed into an evolution folder that currently is:

Eukaryota -> Metazoa -> Chordata -> Craniata -> Vertebrata -> Euteleostomi -> Mammalia -> Eutheria -> Euarchontoglires -> Primates -> Haplorrhini -> Catarrhini -> Hominidae -> Homo -> Homo sapiens -> You

At the topmost level, Eukaryota includes all animals and plants, where the only other topmost branch is Prokaryota, which has only simple, single cell organisms with no nucleus, asexual reproduction only, but with DNA. The concensus is that they where the oldest lifeforms known so far (3.5 billion years the oldest found) while the Eukaryota are "newer" and thus more advanced (1.7 billion years the oldest found).

I don't have a point per se except to remind us that evolutionary theory permeate and support to the whole structure of bio sciences.

Can't remove it without taking the whole building down.

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