Having recently come across Wordle, a “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text”, I wondered what would happen if you ran scientific things through it.

This is what happens. [Hat tip: Good Morning Silicon Valley.]

This is the entirety of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (text from Darwin Online). Below the fold is the human genome.

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First of all, for comparison to Darwin, the book of Genesis (King James version, from here).

Here’s the human genome paper published in Nature in 2001.

Science’s human genome paper, from the same time.