LEADER 04039nam 2200697 450 001 9910464487503321 005 20210422025439.0 010 $a0-231-53766-2 024 7 $a10.7312/arch16412 035 $a(CKB)3710000000203545 035 $a(EBL)1643207 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001288179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12498673 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11292233 035 $a(PQKB)10380505 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000902182 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1643207 035 $a(DE-B1597)458228 035 $a(OCoLC)979751816 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537667 035 $a(PPN)201887339 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1643207 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10906181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL686064 035 $a(OCoLC)884645828 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000203545 100 $a20140820h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAristotle's ladder, Darwin's tree $ethe evolution of visual metaphors for biological order /$fJ. David Archibald 210 1$aWest Sussex, England :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-54782-3 311 0 $a0-231-16412-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter One. Blaming Aristotle --$tChapter Two. The Roots of the Tree of Life --$tChapter Three. Competing Visual Metaphors --$tChapter Four. Deciphering Darwin's Trees --$tChapter Five. The Gilded Age of Evolutionary Trees --$tChapter Six. The Waning and Waxing of Darwinian Trees --$tChapter Seven. Three Revolutions in Tree Building --$tChapter Eight. The Paragon of Animals --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aLeading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place in nature, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological ladder to embodying just one tiny twig on the tree of life. He begins with the ancient but still misguided use of ladders to show biological order, moving then to the use of trees to represent seasonal life cycles and genealogies by the Romans. The early Christian Church then appropriated trees to represent biblical genealogies. The late eighteenth century saw the tree reclaimed to visualize relationships in the natural world, sometimes with a creationist view, but in other instances suggesting evolution. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) exorcised the exclusively creationist view of the "tree of life," and his ideas sparked an explosion of trees, mostly by younger acolytes in Europe. Although Darwin's influence waned in the early twentieth century, by midcentury his ideas held sway once again in time for another and even greater explosion of tree building, generated by the development of new theories on how to assemble trees, the birth of powerful computing, and the emergence of molecular technology. Throughout Archibald's far-reaching study, and with the use of many figures, the evolution of "tree of life" iconography becomes entwined with our changing perception of the world and ourselves. 606 $aBiology$xPhilosophy 606 $aHuman evolution$xPhilosophy 606 $aImagery (Psychology) 606 $aMetaphor 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBiology$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aHuman evolution$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aImagery (Psychology) 615 0$aMetaphor. 676 $a570.1 700 $aArchibald$b J. David$01042909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464487503321 996 $aAristotle's ladder, Darwin's tree$92467536 997 $aUNINA