| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000406308 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Torrens, Erica1 Barahona, Ana1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, México, Distrito Federal. México |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Volumen: | 22 |
| Number: | 41 |
| Pages: | 1-20 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | Following the publication in 1859 of "On the origin of Species", perception of natural affinities began to change from a "cleation plan", known for similarities and differences among species, to that of "kinship", known for genealogical relationships. The achievement of a diagram to represent affinities through evolutionary relationships bcame a major enterprise for many naturalists. Although Darwin posed the challenge to depict the common descent and evolutionary relationships for living beings in the form of a "Tree of Life", he was not the first to employ the tree metaphor in the life sciences, as he stated at the beginning of his famous arboreal metaphor: "the affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree". Who were those authors that represented affinities of beings in the form of trees apparead? Were there other metaphors to represent the order found in nature? |
| Disciplines: | Biología |
| Keyword: | Evolución y filogenia, Naturaleza, Sistemas, Genealogía, Descendencia, Metáfora, Arbol de la vida |
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