Darwin's Canopy: Art inspired by evolution

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UVA created this simulation as a part of an artwork celebrating Darwin's bicentennial.

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[BloomingWithJoy1]

Really, if your releguos why are you even watching newscientist?

Go read you bibals in denile now. ;P

[tristbjorn]

because humans with a tendency to stay alive, has prospered and those with a tendency to die have been weeded out.

I can't say that I have a psykological reason to live, but then again i don't have a reason to die either.

My DNA on the otherhand, will try to keep me alive long enough to get passed on.

[nagzul]

That's all evolution is. All evolution can ever be is art. lol

[omar66277]

very nice, how about adding color to those animations?

[valu777]

How do you know what nature wishes tHeWasTeDYouTH as you are just a speck

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionarily higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile."

It has now become a serious necessity to better the breed of the human race. The average citizen is too base for the everyday work of modern civilization

[pareku]

your wrong. einstein was indeed a jew but stated himself as not a believer. read the book "the good delusion" by richard dawkins to get a clear perspective.

[stimpanzee]

It's actually more about fractal geometry.

[kolzarzor]

oh the good old quote mining... when you finish with the darwin quote about the eye then read the next sentence where where he says how it did happen without divine crap.

[tristbjorn]

I'm not sure on which ancient greek thougth that the earth was round, but yes the idea was there. But his conclusion came from observations (science), watching ships on the horizon and the earths shadow on the moon.

I am aware of the explanation regarding the eye. And oddly I find it more plausible, that a light-sensitive peace of skin improves survivalrates, than divine creation.

Why do I need a reason to be alive? I've been asked/ asked the same question before. The answer is simple --