title: The tree of life: metaphor, model, and heuristic device.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. dpmindell@gmail.com
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Mindell
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D007858:Learning; D019365:Metaphor; D008954:Models, Biological; D010802:Phylogeny