What Darwin Never Knew

[DharmaTroll]

Two-hour special on DharmaTroll's great spiritual teacher:

What Darwin Never Knew
One hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest
mysteries—a two-hour special. Aired December 29, 2009 on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/darwin-never-knew.html

Program Description

Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000
kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of
beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million
different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million
to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until
Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural
selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as
they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species
into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same
genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?

"What Darwin Never Knew" offers answers to riddles that Darwin
couldn't explain. Breakthroughs in a brand-new science—nicknamed "evo
devo"—are linking the enigmas of evolution to another of nature's
great mysteries, the development of the embryo. NOVA takes viewers on
a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the
explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research
labs of today. Scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's
biggest secrets at the genetic level. The results are confirming the
brilliance of Darwin's insights while revealing clues to life's
breathtaking diversity in ways the great naturalist could scarcely
have imagined.

[Charles E Hardwidge]

"DharmaTroll" <dharm...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Two-hour special on DharmaTroll's great spiritual teacher:
>
> What Darwin Never Knew
> One hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest

> mysteries�a two-hour special. Aired December 29, 2009 on PBS.
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/darwin-never-knew.html

I hate bringing up evolution based AI given the tendency for people to
obsess about the brain around here but one news item on machine generated
journalism caught my eye. I've also been reading more crap on Sun Tzu and a
closing comment about competition and size of markets has some bearing on
this as well. Welcome to Pandora.

Links:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-12/16/the-rise-of-machine-written-journalism.aspx

http://www.sonshi.com/goldenberg.html

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Charles E Hardwidge