Diagrams have long been used to describe, claim, and produce the\u00a0relatedness of human individuals and groups, animals, and plants.\u00a0The tree form seems to have attained particular dominance, both\u00a0within specific domains of practice and in historical scholarship. This\u00a0pertains, moreover, to representations of non-organismic entities\u00a0that draw from and flow back into the broad cultural history of the\u00a0tree. And yet a wide variety of diagrams have been devised, sometimes\u00a0in connection with the tree, other times as an explicit alternative,\u00a0or as a novel or idiosyncratic invention. This volume, which\u00a0brings together a commensurately diverse mix of historians of the\u00a0natural and human sciences, social historians, philosophers, and\u00a0historians of art and media, wishes to bring the variety of diagrammatic\u00a0forms out from under the \u201cshadow of the tree\u201d \u2013 while also\u00a0taking seriously the ubiquity of the tree and its implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[27],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n