Fwd: The Evolution of Darwin's Theory of Evolution

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Here's an interesting visualization from another group I'm on.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM, DrQ<red...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This http://benfry.com/traces/ is a rather cool visualization.
> (WARNING: May take a little while to load) It shows sections (pages?)
> of the book "On the Origin of Species" as they evolved over the 6
> editions that Darwin edited during his lifetime.
>
> One notable edit: "...the phrase “survival of the fittest” — usually
> considered central to the theory and often attributed to Darwin —
> instead came from British philosopher Herbert Spencer, and didn't
> appear until the fifth edition..."
>
> If you hover your mouse over the (illegible) columns, that local
> portion of the text appears readably in a separate box.
>
> Perhaps not surprisingly, this visualization technique reminds me of
> watching a dynamic trace of computer memory pages. Words are words, I
> guess. :/
>
> >
>



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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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