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Drawing the tree of life

J. David Archibald: Aristotle’s ladder, Darwin’s tree: The evolution of visual metaphors for biological order. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, 256 pp, US$65.00/£45.00 HB

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Wilkins, J.S. Drawing the tree of life. Metascience 25, 421–424 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0091-8

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