Though extremely rich in detail, with over 400 individual branches, “Cherry Blossoms” exhibited a scaling exponent of 1.4, while the pair calculated the Indian carved tree has a value of 2.5.

They found that the values of α in these artworks range from 1.5 to 2.8, similar to the range of this value in natural trees. “We find α in the range 1.5 to 2.8 corresponding to the range of ...

A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis. (Image credit: Image by Zuntini et al., 2024, CC BY) All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related.

When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which ...