In fact, the French Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment’s foremost encyclopedia, was prefaced by a tree diagram. This schematised its contents with as many as eight levels of branching ...

Why We Needed Trees ... culminating in Arbor scientiae, a collection of tree-based diagrams of science and human knowledge, published in 1296. The work is thought to have influenced thinkers ...

Tree diagrams have been used in evolutionary biology ... This may be the reason why biologists have only in the last few decades come to develop a rigorous understanding of phylogenetic trees.

How do scientists diagram evolutionary relationships? Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches ...

The tree diagram, in particular, has its roots in the Middle Ages. “In Medieval Europe, 800 years ago, visual communication was critical,” Lima says, drawing from his book, which examines the ...