Saturday, August 3, 2013

Katie Melua: Nine Million Bicycles

The Austronesian Language Family

All Modern Life on Earth Derived from Common Ancestor

A universal common ancestor is at least 10²⁸⁶⁰ times more probable than having multiple ancestors, Theobald calculates.
A model that had a single common ancestor and allowed for some gene swapping among species was even better than a simple tree of life. Such a scenario is 10³⁴⁸⁹ times more probable than the best multi-ancestor model, Theobald found. That's a 1 with 3,489 zeros after it.
Theobald's study does not address how many times life may have arisen on Earth. Life could have originated many times, but the study suggests that only one of those primordial events yielded the array of organisms living today.

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LUA, LUCA, Cenancestor

Carl Woese

Carl Woese

Archaea

Friday, August 2, 2013

The Afroasiatic Language Family


Semitic, Berber, Cushitic, Chadic, Egyptian, Omotic

The Uralic Language Family


Finnic, Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi, Mari, Mordvinic, Permic, Sami, Samoyedic

The Sino-Tibetan Language Family


Sinitic, Tibeto-Burman

The Indo-European Language Family


Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, Italic, Tocharian

Turkish Mongolian Throat Singing / Die Türkische Mongollen singen