It's simply an illustration of the far future evolutionary possibilities if the Earth (as currently seems likely) undergoes a mass extinction event.
But the two computer simulations at the exhibition's end — one a simplified Sims-type game of cultural and environmental choice, the other a cartoonish vision of possible future evolutionary change — should be far more subtle.
The degree to which these future evolutionary changes and extinctions will occur is uncertain.
The future evolutionary scientist grew up in Ada, Oklahoma, the birthplace of Oral Roberts.
Furthermore, future evolutionary trends of such ultraprecision machine tools are described.
Here again, Smil′s discussion of ecological impacts leads us to think of the possible future evolutionary ones as well.
Thereby acquired knowledge suggests systemic aspects of evolutionary interdependences both in the past and in future evolutionary developments.
Perhaps a future evolutionary bioroboticist will find reasons to reject the background assumptions on which Long's results rest, at some level of the hierarchy.
It does not take too much imagination to also wonder about possible future evolutionary impacts, including extinctions and changes in environmental signals, leading to species decline.
The AlloRep database (freely available at www.AlloRep.org) is a key resource for future evolutionary studies of LacI/GalR homologs and for benchmarking computational predictions of functional change.
Here we demonstrate the power of matK for fern phylogenetic reconstruction, as well as provide primers and extensive sequence data that will greatly facilitate future evolutionary studies of ferns.
