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Can you hear the patterns of evolution? What you are listening to is a sonification of phylogeny — a family tree of life. It is the story of many related species (in this case, 44 jumping spiders in the genus Habronattus) expressed as music.
released July 7, 2023
Sonification by Mendel Skulski, Dr. Damien de Vienne, Simon Lysander Overstall, Dr. Miriam Quick, Duncan Geere, and Dr. Henri Boutin.
In partnership with Future Ecologies & Lobe Spatial Sound Studio, and with funding by the Canada Council for the Arts
This project was inspired and enabled by the work of Dr. Wayne Maddison: internationally renowned expert in biodiversity, phylogeny, & bioinformatics in general, and jumping spiders in particular.
Data by Dr. Wayne Maddison and Dr. Geneviève Leduc-Robert
Habronattus audio recordings courtesy of Dr. Damien Elias
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