Thursday, July 17, 2008

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting

Gustav Klimt The Three Ages of Woman painting
Claude Monet The Red Boats Argenteuil painting
happened over and over again shows just how adaptable aquatic birds are, he adds, and it indicates that evolution could have moved along at a somewhat faster pace than had been thought.If all of this is confirmed — and DNA research on aquatic birds is a very immature field — then many birds that look so much alike have erroneously been assigned to the wrong families. Hedges says it will take years to sort all of this out, and probably even longer to convince ornithologists who have become accustomed to seeing the world as it appears to be.But just because it looks like a duck doesn't necessarily mean it's a duck.Genetics is reshaping our view of just about everything these days. Nothing, it seems, is what it seems like on the surface. That's exciting, and a bit scary.Unless, of course, you happen to be a lowly grebe who has just learned that you're very much like the beauty on the beach.

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