Nature - 'Tree of life' took root 150 years ago. Skip to main content. ... As thousands of scientists and policymakers gather in Mexico this month for the COP13 summit on biodiversity ...

New research reveals that the "Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito," once thought to be a living "tree of life," may have been just a big, dead tree that came from somewhere else.

In Charles Darwin’s world-changing work On the Origin of Species, the naturalist make use of the millennia-old metaphor in which all life is represented by a tree.He writes that “the ...

The central panel of Gustav Klimt's, "Tree of Life" triptych, painted around 1910 to 1911, was one of the artworks analyzed in the study.