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We examined two scenarios combining treatment and prevention efforts, reflecting either optimistic or pessimistic possibilities.
The pessimistic spin: One will lead to the other.
The WP reefers a story about the MPL news which has a more pessimistic tone than the others about the likelihood of establishing contact with the Mars space probe.
The most straightforward version of this type of analysis, to which we hereinafter refer to as 'genome-tree' building, involves scaling-up the traditional tree-building approach and analyzing the phylogenetic trees for multiple gene families (in principle, all families represented in many genomes), in an attempt to derive a consensus, 'organismal' phylogeny [ 3 4 5 ] . However, because of the wide spread of horizontal gene transfer and lineage-specific gene loss, at least in the prokaryotic world, comparison of trees for different families and consensus derivation may become highly problematic [ 6 7 ] . Probably due to all these problems, a pessimistic conclusion has been reached that prokaryotic phylogeny might not be reconstructable from protein sequences, at least with current phylogenetic methods [ 4 ] .
The pleasant drift is nature reminding us that we are all in this world together--but this was not what Shakespeare intended, especially in his most satirical and pessimistic play, Troilus and Cressida.