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Scientists are working on a way to re-visualize the evolutionary tree.

There’s just one problem. “We have no way to visualize such a tree at the moment,” he said. If they tried, they would end up with a blurry, inscrutable thicket. “It would be ironic,” Dr. Sanderson said. “We’d be saying, ‘We’ve built it, but we can’t show it to you.’ ”

People clearly underestimate the benefits of a properly laid out visual interface. Looking at you, mid-to-late 90s web page programmers.

The biologists of today are looking to the computer scientists and software engineers from Google and Adobe to create a new way of looking at evolution.

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