Biologists use machine learning to classify fossils of extinct pollen

PHYSorg
Mar 20, 2024, 11:10 am147 pts
In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing characteristics of organisms for the most accurate placement within a phylogenetic tree. Enter neural networks,…

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