Life’s Branches

It’s not everyday that someone gets a tree named after them, at least not a genetic tree. Thanks to Darwin’s keen observations, we now realize that everyone and everything is a distant relative. Before cracking the human genome, scientists tried to classify organisms based on their physical characteristics. The result? This tree. It’s the basis for so much of what we know about life on Earth that it deserved to be made in gold as well! Buy this piece for yourself or for a friend. It makes a great gift for finch lovers, Galapagos explorers, evolutionary biologists, and taxonomists.