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All the different animals, different branching points, different transitional nodes in the tree of life. And so i argue that if this method of investigation is giving us a true historical signal, we should get an unambiguous signal, one that is giving us a single tree that is telling us the story of one historical unfolding of life. After all, history only happened once. That we get so many conflicting trees, i think, raises question about whether the method is sending a historical signal at all. The other problem with this method of investigation is that it begs the question, it says that the degree of difference between two proteins or genes in different animals is an indication of how long ago theydiverged from a common ancestor. But that they diverged from a common ancestor is presupposed from the outset of the investigation. And its presupposed in all the algorithms that analyze and compare the gene sequences. So you cant use a method of investigation that presupposes a common anc
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Welcome to today. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist with Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Matt and al have the morning off. Weather outside is frightful here. Warm and rainy. Warm and rainy is the key. I cant believe how long it was. I said i put the jorts up on a shelf and could bring them down. I know. Guys. Its insane. We have ryan oneal live in our los angeles studio this morning. He just won a huge verdict and that Farrah Fawcett portrait is in his hands now legally. But the weather is the top story this morning. The impact it is having on the holiday rush. At least nine deaths blamed on storms that produced everything from tornadoes to a dangerous ice storm. Half a Million People without power nationwide. By late last night, more than 700 flights had been cancelled. Another 11,000 delayed. Just in time for the Christmas H
That ahmadinejad. Rose nobody asked you to kill assad . No, no. You couldnt stay they did. Rose laughs maybe you already did. You poisoned him. Rose no. Franco for the hour next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose this is not a roast. This is my greatest most elaborate art installation ever. cheers and applause im not the real guest of honor and these arent real comedians and were not even on a real network. laughter what youve seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester and artistic visionary and subjected to the mindless incoherent trashing of a scattering of talentless abnormalities. I call it genius unscathed and this is my masterpiece cheers and applause rose james frong cois here. He is an actor, director and art itself. Hes also an author. The Los Angeles Angels of anaheim described him as the prince of perpetual motion. His new book is a novel called actors anonymous and here is the trailer for the book.
Direction to go. Boehner is still held captive. This isnt the first time. We saw this with the fiscal cliff, the farm bill. John boehner does not have the votes. Seam problem here. Why are they doing this . We get closer and closer to the edge. We are about to default. Everybody gets hurt. Time is money. Working on a way forward. There is a battle for the soul of the republican party. Im very disappointed with john boehner. What a speaker has to do is get the job done. John boehner spent the day proving to the crazies in his party that it is impossible for anything that the crazies want to pass the house of representatives. First, boehner and the leadership offered republicans in the house the option of voting on something similar to the Senate Agreement with the difference being some changes to the Affordable Care act. It quickly became clear in their meeting that republicans did not have enough votes to pass that. Then, john boehner, offered republicans the option of maybe voting for