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 E-Mail IMAGE: A new study applies machine learning to the fossil record to visualise life's history, showing the impacts of major evolutionary events. This shows the long-term evolutionary and ecological impacts of... view more  Credit: J. Hoyal Cuthill and N. Guttenberg. Charles Darwin's landmark opus, On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, "There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to t...

Charles Darwin’s landmark opus,  On the Origin of the Species, ends with a beautiful summary of his theory of evolution, “There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” In fact, scientists now know that most species that have ever existed are extinct. This extinction of species has on the whole been roughly ba...