• DOI:10.1007/S10739-008-9163-Y
Corpus ID: 16634677

Edward Hitchcock’s Pre-Darwinian (1840) “Tree of Life”

@article{Archibald2009EdwardHP,
  title={Edward Hitchcock’s Pre-Darwinian (1840) “Tree of Life”},
  author={J. D. Archibald},
  journal={Journal of the History of Biology},
  year={2009},
  volume={42},
  pages={561-592}
}

J. D. Archibald

Published 2009

Biology, Medicine

Journal of the History of Biology

The “tree of life” iconography, representing the history of life, dates from at least the latter half of the 18th century, but evolution as the mechanism providing this bifurcating history of life did not appear until the early 19th century. There was also a shift from the straight line, scala naturae view of change in nature to a more bifurcating or tree-like view. Throughout the 19th century authors presented tree-like diagrams, some regarding the Deity as the mechanism of change while others… CONTINUE READING

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