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This is news to me, and I've been reading about nested heirarchies. Please explain why you think this is a lie in terms of evolution.
Talkdeceptions, of course. Note the very title is a lie. There's no "prediction". They had trees drawn up before Darwin even, so it's tad late to predict them.

Found a little more.
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When full DNA sequences opened the way to comparing many different genes in different organisms, the comparisons proved confounding. Rather than clarifying the tree that seeks to show how life evolved, they often produced new trees that differ from the traditional tree and conflict with each other as well. Now some microbiologists, pointing to evidence that microbes have swapped genes wantonly over evolutionary history, say that many of these genes are an unreliable guide to evolutionary history and the old tree is still basically sound. But others think it's time to uproot the old tree and are proposing candidates for new trees based on specific features of the genome and cell structure. And still others worry that gene swapping has turned the tree of life into a tangled briar whose lineages will be next to impossible to discern.
I followed up & found similar news here, here, here, and even here. <4 links there.

Edit: The last one's fun. They show a proposed a new non-tree tree.

Last edited by CTD; 04/08/08 03:13 AM.

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