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Tree of life
Ross MacFarlane traces the ideas around Charles Darwin’s famous ‘Tree of Life’, both back to the Bible, and forward to its appropriation by the proponents of eugenics.
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How Californian dairy farmers stole a way of life
When European settlers drained a beautiful Californian lake to provide dairy grazing, the lives of nearby Native American peoples changed out of all recognition. But recent rainfall is strengthening hopes of a return to the old ways.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
![The tree of humane life, or, the bloud of the grape. Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreame old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine / [Tobias Whitaker].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0011066/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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Tree of life.
Charnley, Bryan, 1949-1991Date: [1989]Reference: 3049682i- Books
Tree of life.
Date: 2009- Books
Tree of life exhibition : art works in different media based on the beauty of the human heart and its blood supply / edited by Dr Geoffrey Farrer-Brown.
Farrer-Brown, Geoffrey.Date: 2002- Books
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The natural history of the arbor vitae, or, Tree of life.
Stretzer, Thomas, -1738Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Archives and manuscripts
"Tree of Life sketches"
Date: 1979-1991Reference: PP/BCH/9/46Part of: Bryan Charnley (1949-1991): archive