National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Published June 18, 2015 | Version v1
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The Evolutionary Visualization (EvoViz) wiki

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Imperial College London

Description

This is a snapshot of the EvoViz wiki, taken in June 2015. The wiki was live at https://www.nescent.org/sites/evoviz/Main_Page

What is EvoViz?

EvoViz is about visualizing all aspects of evolutionary science, including concepts, processes and data.

Content includes the following:

  • Holistic views of evolution. How do we visualize the whole, or large parts, of evolutionary science holistically?
  • Software
    • GeoPhyloBuilder is a ArcGIS extension that creates geophylogenies. EvoViz hosts GeoPhyloBuilder help and FAQ.
    • Google Earth. Geophylogenies, pie charts and other graphs on Google Earth. 
  • A history of graphical images of evolution.
  • The structures of evolution.
    • Evolutionary Trees.
    • Geophylogenies - spatiotemporal networks.
    • Chain of Being or March of Progress.
    • The Double Helix.
  • Images from advertising, film, television, etc.
    • Animations
  • The evolution of specific groups of organisms.
    • The Tree of Life.
    • Mammals.
    • Angiosperms.
  • Links & Bibliography

Notes

Instructions on how to import the dump into a MediaWiki instance can be found at MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps Every dump consists of two files, an .xml.gz and a .tar.gz. The .xml.gz is processed by importDump.php, the .tar.gz is processed by importImages.php, as per the above documentation.

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