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  • As much as I love and respect EO Wilson, EoL is doomed to become a site of pretty megafauna pictures and little else. Vertebrates are ALWAYS well represented on these things. I could spend 2 hours of my time making a useful page for one species of insect, but who would ever see it? Who would ever use it?

  • @kaimialana Have you visited EOL lately? It's more than megafauna.

  • @bobbcorr It continues to be about vertebrates. For example, the featured pages. Vertebrates make up little more than 3% of all described species, yet more than half the featured species are from that taxon. The only insect on that list (insects making up more than half of described species diversity on the planet) is one economically important species. Having a place holder doesn't count, especially when there is no good way to browse the hierarchy.

  • @kaimialana The "featured" pages are there to show people unfamiliar with EOL pages that have a lot of content so they can explore it. There are 172,702 photos of insects in EOL, and 39,519 photos of fungi. It is more than vertebrates. :)

  • @kaimialana And there are the 344,645 articles and 73,996 images from the Missouri Botanical Gardens' TROPICOS database - all plants. Interested in Opisthobranchia (sea slugs and mollusks)? Harmful phytoplankton (marine dinoflagellates and diatoms)? Bryozoa? Crowd-sourced moth photography? They're all on EOL today.

  • @bobbcorr Then please direct me as to how to browse the classification, because when I click on the "pages" link, I am directed to the featured pages. Perhaps I just want to see what's available on a general group, or I don't know the name of a particular type of mollusk or insect. Where can I just browse the taxonomy to see what's available? Or was that feature removed in the update?

  • @kaimialana Visit the overview tab of any EOL taxon page. On the upper right, you will see classifications you can explore. Note that EOL hosts multiple classifications - as there are multiple opinions on how species are related. If you want to find a taxon page, go to the home page and click on a photograph. Enjoy.

  • Awesome...

  • ggod this sucks i cant belive this crap is my homework

  • @i3kick4ur7ass its myn t0

  • this is my homework too

  • @i3kick4ur7ass Thats the same for meee !!! its (Shit) x

  • that means that exist maybe a future in for our planet.

    I was very amazed with that vid !

  • No, the EOL is an incredible concept coming to fruit, but don't overestimate it's value.

    A superlative research tool, but not an answer to the crisis at hand. In fact, in some ways it's just a pretty "catalog of the damned". Soon to be a "catalog of the dead".

    "Catalogs of the Dead" are for paleontologists, not for the enjoyment and sustenance of a planet.

    In 50 yrs, I'd rather Orangs be shuffling & swinging through the forests of Indonesis, as opposed to just memories & pretty pictures.

  • why are u saying that is a "future catalog of the dead" ?

    all they want is to make all the knowledge about all the living creature on earth be available for everyone in everywhere, so its not a soon to be catalog of the dead unless u hunt down all the creatures that are in that online catalog

  • Arrogance is a good colour on you.

  • can somebody please tell me what song this is?

    i will forever be in your debt...

  • It's a piece of stock music. I forget where I got it (I was the editor). If I encounter the old FCP project, I'll dig it up.

  • @weevie833 Thanks man! Please do, 'cause I really love this song haha

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  • Encyclopedia of Life Science - Wiley, worth over $7,000.00!!!

    Do you want to buy this book for $50/£25? if so, leave a message on my profile page, or email on mindboom9 at yahoo. com

    the entire book, all 25,707 pages! I really need to get this sold. Welcome to all questions!

  • why does everyone who praises wikipedia here get shot down?? can't wiki and this EOL both be great?? maybe EOL for the natural world, and wiki for everything else.

  • I agree ;)

  • Whats barbage?!?! Is that whats its called when you get a whole package of fishing hooks accidentally stuck thru your fingers?!?! :^)

  • Yeah, i think wiki is barbage too!

  • The current version is a beta demo! EOL will be, more or less, like this video shows. Be patient.

    =)

  • the information of eol is supported by biologists and cientifics of the world!! wikipedia not!!

  • How would it be any different?

    Right from this demo you can see that it'll have a graphical representation of the phylogenetic tree, which you can navigate - and geographical maps of locations of populations of the species. No primarily text-based resource can match the convenience and clarity of such visually navigatable resource; it makes the phylogeny of life tangible for any viewer of the site. So I see this as having the potential to stand head and shoulders above Wikipedia in it's field.

  • this site WILL be better for species than wikipedia because it is specially designed for it. and this project is much more comprehensive than wikipedia as well. i think it's an excellent idea!

  • Yeah, but this is gonna be better

  • WOW~! what a great idea! FABULOUS!

  • Waw... it is so awesome!!! I love it all ready. You guys are amazing people who are putting all this together. My cousin, which I would not enclose her name at this time, is one of those people putting this project together. She is AWESOME!!! I love you prima!!! Thanx you all for caring for the beautiful species that are on earth and for helping to sharing who, what and where this species are from. Keep up the GREEEEAAAATTTT... Work.

  • I think it's a bold and fantastic move.

    Kudos.

  • WOW, that looks just awesome! Went to the site immediately, registered and favorited it, though it still seems to be at early stages of development. :)

  • EOL will provide an official resource to all things biological, unlike wikipedia where a user may manipulate data to something that may not be true or unproven, the data held on this site will be moderated by official panels with a thirst for this knowledge.

  • I would totally dig this site. Imagine if it later expanded to all the extinct species of the past, ancestral tree style. That'd be another ton of work beyond even this project, but think of how cool it'd be if it were completed.

  • i can't wait...does anyone know when it will be up and running?

  • The launch of beta version will be in may, for the definitive version we have to wait just 2009.

  • Some of the worst comments I've ever seen on Youtube here, and that's really saying something. People have nothing important to say about this project but they come here to bitch about it anyway. That's fine if you have no interest in science. Just stay in your basement with your XBox and don't bother the rest of us who honestly care about the natural world.

  • Its people like pattom136 that cause other people to believe this bull about how co2 emitions does not play a part in climate change... God I hate those DUCHE BAGS. These people will be mankind's downfall. You want proof, no snow in October, November, and mostly all of December last year, or the massive heat wave in France a few years ago that killed hundreds.

    p.s. No one waste your time trying to contradict me and change my mind because I will never believe otherwise.

  • You can't change the mind of a closed minded idiot.

  • I like the video, the images are beautiful.

  • what song is this?!

  • drama

  • Groovy.

  • triple j told me to watch it

  • Wow! Go to their site to sign up and receive updates on any future happenings.

  • Props to the site. Truly revolutionary.

    No doubt it will be an important tool whether or not you believe in global warming or evolution.  A catalogue of species that constantly updates is cool.

  • In the universal scale, life on Earth is relatively young (about 4 billion years), yet, it has been able to evolve from sea-faring microbes into the 1.8+ million known species we have today.

    I believe it is humanity's duty, as Earth's most intelligent species, to catalog all life on this blue planet. I have high hopes for this project. Hopefully it will be free of the bias and inaccuracy of Wikipedia.

  • I thought the latest trend in evolutionism was to assume several different species already "appeared" somehow, and then things evolved from there. You're going back to the assumption that everything evolved from one microbe again.

  • Umm, no. There is no, nor has there ever been such a trend.

  • Evolutionism seems to have several denominations. One denomination believes that everything evolved from one thing, over billions and billions of years. Yet another denomination assumes that several species were already in existence and animals evolved from there. That's simply what I have experienced, on challenging those who believe in evolutionism.

  • Then I'm afraid you are challenging those who know nothing of evolution.

  • Diruo, actually that is based on observing debates with Creation vs. evolutionism, not just debating teenagers on YouTube.

  • Still, they know nothing of the theory of evolution if they make such a claim. People arguing such might be christians/creationists who happen to believe that evolution is occuring (as it is), but started after God inserted loads of creatures. I assure you, people claiming such do not have anything to do with science or biology in any way. It sounds like something a politician would say... URLs?

  • So which variety of evolution is valid, according to mainstream evolutionists? The one that believes everything evolved from one organism, or the one that believes things evolved from an assumed set of animals/plants/organisms, etc...?

  • i love the vision E.O.Wilson has. i think this will strike us all as a reminder that we can still rebuild from our mistakes. and inspire us to learn on a hole new level.

  • Dear Stupids and gay robot computers,

    The Earth alive? stupid encyclopedias? Ha-ha the aliens already have this. Why reinvent the Gorzonox, and E5i? You stupid mammilian species of de-evolved lizard descent. Go procreate with socks, losers.

    Your Friend,

    Signed

    Us, Homo Erect

  • wow-- its beautiful

  • Its incredible. It will change science.

  • I hope it.

  • Very astute observation. Nature will continually balance in order to continue. Humans are not above the millenial force of natural selection.

  • this is bloody damn cool mate !!

  • i wan to be a part of this

  • lol you clicked on Norway ;D

  • wow, nice idea!

  • this is one heck of a great video i love it a lot its got the info its got the music and its like its living!!

  • elivator music!!!

  • That would be a biestch.

  • Imagine, something that already exists.

  • Doesn't Wikipedia already exist?

    Lol, great vid

  • yeah, there is already the "wikispecies" project which organizes the information about species on wikipedia.. screw this project

  • no, wikipedia is designed by nerds; real scientists like the encyclopedia of life.

  • awesome

  • i cried

  • sweet :P

  • والله جنان الموقع

  • very nice, let's protect our world together!

  • URL???

  • eol (dot) org

    (no spaces)

    On a side note, the video reminds me just how small and fragile we really are.

  • A nice idealistic concept. But how it would change the way in which we currently interact with nature (i.e., drive most species to extinction)? A much better idea would be a project to attempt to store the DNA of all the species we are currently decimating for possible future restoration.

  • Yes, it's an idealistic concept, but there's something you might have missed. It's about finding out what's there and, most importantly, getting them involved! Sure the technology is there to extract and preserve (to a point) DNA, but without funding, how does it happen? This seems a great way to get people unified globally which can lead to government funding for such projects as DNA cataloguing.

  • Storing the DNA of a specific species may also seriously limit the gene-pool of any subsequently cloned animal. You would have to get a selection of different strains (or alleles of different characteristics).

  • has me in tears =)

  • Me too! Makes me want to become a biologist and trek out with my camera!

  • Terminator

  • Not wikipedia. Not even close. But a "specialized" media enhansed branch like this would make a SPLENDID addition to wiki. Not to mention that many sites like that linked together would make wiki a >legit< and more up to date source of info.

  • yeah good idea...xcept its like wikipedia. =_=

  • Be like wikipedia is not a good idea? hehe :)

  • what song is this?

  • As a Canadian I am proud to kill baby seals

    what do you think I eat during the winter?

    also, my "Funk and Wagnells" seems to have this "Encylopedia of Life "

    covered

    thanks any way

  • This is a great idea.

  • STOP GLOBAL WARMING PEOPLE!

  • this is the same as wiki...-_-

  • yes death to all animals...havent you noticed this world is going to shit ....

  • boring...

  • Cool!

  • good idea.

  • 1.8 million species? i thought there were more than that of just bugs, not to mention bacteria

  • that looked pretty sick

  • i have one word wikipedia lol

  • Freakin awesome! like wikipedia on crack, for earth life! aliens can flip thru it like a menu...ha!

  • SO AMAZING!!! i love this shit man. american is so cool

  • what do you know man!!, go finish up your oreo and milk

  • Looks like an amazing compilation.

  • I can't believe it. These incorporate some of the ideas I was going to submit for a company to develop this in their next version of their electronic encyclopdia. But now that it's used in the video, I'll look bad. Rats. EOL looks great and all, but I really wish they weren't the first to put it on video.

  • wow this is really really good....

  • woah.

  • That was cool...I'll definately help...like a wiki for biology.

  • What the heck? This makes no sense to me...makes me feel like i'm in chemistry or something...

  • Wow awesome.

  • i fell asleep during this man...

  • this is coooool

  • Excellent presentation.

  • Whats wrong with Wikipedia?

  • Fancy, flash based website, cool userbased updatable pics...you might even discover a new species, with this incentive...go digging...its a cool idea

  • second the motion

  • i found a new species of anaconda!...its in my pants :)

  • Yes, it is very important to leave behind a record such as this - for the aliens to see how stupid we were to destroy this beautiful planet.

  • I found a new species! Oh wait--- forget it, it got hit by a car. Nice car though.

  • lol, excitment is relative isnt it...A Bugati Veyron or a dinosuar egg...hmmmmmmmm?????

  • only in the .(dot)com generation

  • Earth is mostly harmless.

  • thats pretty awesome

    dont know what id ever use it for though..

  • so beautifull thats the way to make a good comercial

  • POKEDEX!!!

  • HAHA.

  • lol pokedex that's hilarious...but it really is just like it

  • its called wikipedia =]

  • 1.8 million wow. thats amazing! what are the chances it would be such an even number? lol jk, i cant wait for this, its gona be awsome.

  • One thing I could gather just by watching a few youtube vids and watching the comments is that the human race is evil. In general people are filled with venom and hatred and they will comment on vids that even in everyday life they dont really care about and would never say in public. Yet they will spew vicious comments when they know their is no consequence. I wish I was born another species!!

  • Axilla9000: People aren't inherently evil. They develop that way through conditioning. If we lived in a world of peace, the majority of people would never develop a racist of hatful thought.

  • Oh my god, do not judge the world on youtube commenters. Youtube commenters are actually the stupidest, meanest, most bigoted, most thoughtless judgemental people in the world.

  • not all of them are, just the ones who know that they can say anything they want without anyone finding out who they are, and take that oppurtunity to say junk.

  • ...and you are one of them.

  • Yes your right, I am. And that is why I said I wish I was made another species. And I wasn't saying that this realization had come to me through youtube(that is stupid)...I said "I could gather". If we were blown up right now and all an alien race had on us was youtube dialog when we were discovered.../sigh... if they had intelligence they would say "good ridance, they area self destructive organism"

  • lol ... thats how i see us ... now

  • I just want to say to everyone that posted here that I love you with a special kind of love...LOL

  • Does that include u? U did just put a comment up!!! Oh shit.... i just became one of the "stupidest, meanest, most big...." in the world too. Look what u made me do. Arghhhh....

  • OMG... I HATE YOU...lol.... You are so pathetic how can you possibly make the statement that humans might actually be selfish and try and hurt people that challenge them in some way...lol. Thats rediculous...lol. The human race is beautiful!!!! LOL....LOL...LOL....LOL

  • not only will they lol .... all over the world .... but some of them may even being l(m/t)fao .... or the dreaded rofl .... if six billion+ people were to rofl at the same time ..... ? ... would we all fit ?

  • good idea for web 2.0

  • life is NOT on the web. Go out and take some fresh air !

  • theres already a million websites that do this shit

  • stupid technology of this time i prefer to be back on 90's

  • ignorance is bliss right my friend?

  • :)

  • Yet people question the possibility of God...

  • yeah the whole question of gods existence is answered in that 4min video...lol

  • i liked it =)

  • well wikipedia already has all of this. but I guess if you wanna make more money with another specilaizing site, go for it!.

  • There is already an enciclopedia of life its called wikipedia.

  • fuckin borring

  • Looks brilliant!

  • Meh. Another Web 2.0 thing. Nothing special.

  • Great!

  • i won't help them...

  • Looks like a Web 2.0 version of Wikipedia. What's the big deal?

  • THİS is good but my video very good video...you are watching my videos...

  • dude thiz is formatted like the Web 2.0

  • The creators of "The Encyclopedia of Life" should get a prize. It will be a history making endeavour.

  • it's a really good commercial

  • Forget all that hippy loving tree hugging crap; that's one hell cool development.

  • save the humans before you save squirrels

  • youre not real man

  • Stop the fighting. Global warming, famine, or a cmet does not matter. We are here today. right now. And so is life. Its all around us and we barely know what it looks and feels like and it forms and disappears without us ever knowing. We need to act and identify what is part of what we call home, if we are going to save it.

  • Who cares so much about this? It seems so extravagent for something so... useless. Billions of species went extinct before humans even existed. Should we catalog those, too? Animals come and go all the time throughout history, why should we care so much now about recording EVERY SINGLE species? No interest from me, sorry.