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Aristotle's ladder, Darwin's tree : the evolution of visual metaphors for biological order / J. David Archibald

Author
Archibald, J. David
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xii, 242 pages ; 29 cm

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Contents
Blaming Aristotle -- The roots of the tree of life -- Competing visual metaphors -- Deciphering Darwin's trees -- The gilded age of evolutionary trees -- The waning and waxing of Darwinian trees -- Three revolutions in tree building -- The paragon of animals.
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ISBN
9780231164122 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231164122 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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