Wednesday, 14 September 2011

PHYLOGENETICS

The urge for finding our ancestors never ends. Am I a lineage from chimpanzee? a Gorilla? Do I have any traits matching with Dinosaurs???? Was I powerful like Elephants once upon a time??? Did I live in water?? Who am I? Where am I from?? Millions and Millions of Questions.... these questions fascinated me, urged me in my quest to find my past... My dear friends, I am going to blog on whatever little things I know about this super creature "Being Human Being" and various mathematical predictions used to find out our past and how different are we from our fellow mates (Herbivorous, Carnivorous)

When it comes to phylogeny, the first thing which comes to our mind is Fossil records and morphological similarity. But the reality is if we start collecting fossils and look for morphological similarity, the entire life time of ours would not be enough. "Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean" we live in such a mystic planet.