2012-04-08
Original: 2012-04-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark hair, seated and holding a presentation remote/clicker, speaks while gesturing toward a projected slide. The slide shows a simple line drawing of a branching tree.
Woman: IT WAS ONCE POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE IN AN EVOLUTIONARY TREE OF LIFE. BUT HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER MEANS DIVERGENT BRANCHES CAN HAVE DIRECT CONNECTIONS. THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE STRUCTURE COMMONLY KNOWN, WHICH COULD DESCRIBE THAT QUALITY.
Caption (below panel): Nobody appreciated my "Ewok Village of Life" concept.
Votey:
A line drawing of a tall, dense, interconnected branching structure resembling a tree whose limbs cross-connect to one another. Near the upper right, a tiny stick figure stands among the branches with arms raised, shouting in a small speech bubble.
Stick figure: YUB NUB!
A woman with dark hair, seated and holding a presentation remote/clicker, speaks while gesturing toward a projected slide. The slide shows a simple line drawing of a branching tree.
Woman: IT WAS ONCE POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE IN AN EVOLUTIONARY TREE OF LIFE. BUT HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER MEANS DIVERGENT BRANCHES CAN HAVE DIRECT CONNECTIONS. THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE STRUCTURE COMMONLY KNOWN, WHICH COULD DESCRIBE THAT QUALITY.
Caption (below panel): Nobody appreciated my "Ewok Village of Life" concept.
Votey:
A line drawing of a tall, dense, interconnected branching structure resembling a tree whose limbs cross-connect to one another. Near the upper right, a tiny stick figure stands among the branches with arms raised, shouting in a small speech bubble.
Stick figure: YUB NUB!
Alt text
A woman with dark hair sits holding a presentation clicker, gesturing toward a projected slide that shows a simple drawing of a branching tree. She says: "It was once possible to believe in an evolutionary tree of life. But horizontal gene transfer means divergent branches can have direct connections. There's really only one structure commonly known, which could describe that quality." The caption below reads: "Nobody appreciated my 'Ewok Village of Life' concept." The joke: instead of a clean tree, life's true structure is a web of cross-connected branches like the interlinked walkways of an Ewok tree-village from Star Wars. In the votey aftercomic, a tall dense tree-like structure has its branches crossing and connecting to each other; a tiny stick figure stands among the branches, arms raised, cheering "Yub nub!" — the Ewok celebration chant.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.