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A framed family tree hung on the wall.
his family tree includes writers, musical composers, and other notables in the arts
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Brady integrated this process into a computer program for simulating Turing machines, which constructed a sort of family tree for machines with the same number of rules, based on the similarity of their initial behavior.
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2024
All the weirdness in the Hanks family tree falls under Rita’s branches) throwing an absolute hissyfit in the season premiere because she got eliminated?
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 31 May 2024
Hard Science Astrophysicists reconstruct the Milky Way’s family tree
A team of astrophysicists used AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
But experts were uncertain about where exactly Pikaia belonged on the chordate family tree.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 24 June 2024
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 July 2024
All the weirdness in the Hanks family tree falls under Rita’s branches) throwing an absolute hissyfit in the season premiere because she got eliminated?
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 31 May 2024
Hard Science Astrophysicists reconstruct the Milky Way’s family tree
A team of astrophysicists used AI to figure out which clusters of stars merged to become our galaxy.
—Big Think, 24 June 2024
But experts were uncertain about where exactly Pikaia belonged on the chordate family tree.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 24 June 2024
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“Family tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/family%20tree. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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