The World Tree Is Not What The World Expects (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) As can be expected due to the vagaries of human knowledge and perception, tree metaphors are best moved to other members of the Kingdom Plantae. The paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that the famed tree of life in evolutionary metaphors was, thanks to mass extinctions, closer to a…
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