Saturday, August 08, 2009

New York Times Book Review Use of a "Tree of Life"

Funny use of a "Tree of Life" in the New York Times book review section from a few months ago (The New York Times:Natural Selections)

In this, they overlay onto a somewhat strange Tree of Life, the images used for various book publishers and what types of organisms they use. They say that this represents a fair amount of biodiversity, but really only because they draw the tree in a skewed manner. Basically, there are animals and plants in the logos and the way they draw the tree makes this look like it is a lot of biodiversity ... but really it is a small component compared to the whole tree of life. I also like that they put robots on the insect branch and they have mythology as a VERY deep branch in the tree.

2 comments:

  1. Well, robots *do* have an exoskeleton, although generally not of chitin....

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  2. yes, that is why I liked that they put them there

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