It's a scandal! Jonathan Eisen says that Hollywood is making a movie tentatively entitled Tree of Life. Plot summary?
In a mystical world of folklore, several individuals embrace in a race to find the Tree of Life, said to give immortality, fertility, and other supernatural powers.
Eisen wants to protect this holiest of holy phrases from the attention of a gazillion celebrity-sucking bloggers etc who, he fears, will cause “uses of the Tree of Life by evolutionary biologists [to] lose their google rankings. The term ‘The Tree of Life’ is at risk of a form of extinction.”
And the solution? Link to the real McCoys. Which I'm happy to do.
- Jonathan Eisen's "Tree of Life" blog
- Tree of Life Web Project
- [Tree of life (biology) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(biology)
- Green Tree of Life at Berkeley
- Fungal Tree of Life Project
- Beetle Tree of Life project
- Fly Tree of Life project
- Mammal Tree of Life project
- Cypriniformes Tree of Life project
- Liverwort Tree of Life Project
- Early Bird Tree of Life project
- Angiosperm Tree of Life project
- Cnidaria Tree of Life Project
- Decapoda Tree of Life Project
I do, however, need someone to explain to me just when “fertility” became a supernatural power.
2022-08-03: I'm leaving all the links in that list exactly as I found them, even though several are dead and gone. Unlike the tree of life itself. So far.
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