These links create the structure of the map and tend to pull similar scientific disciplines closer to one another. 2 Birds of a Feather Paley refers to his map as a “feather boa”—the feathers being ...

In our information-thick, data-supported ... digital visualizations. For example, in print it is hard to locate the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae on the 2006 'Tree of Life' map by Peer ...