Obliging as ever

It’s a scandal! Jonathan Eisen says that Hollywood is making a movie tentatively entitled Tree of Life. Plot summary?

In a mystical world of folklore, several individuals embrace in a race to find the Tree of Life, said to give immortality, fertility, and other supernatural powers.

Eisen wants to protect this holiest of holy phrases from the attention of a gazillion celebrity-sucking bloggers etc who, he fears, will cause “uses of the Tree of Life by evolutionary biologists [to] lose their google rankings. The term “The Tree of Life” is at risk of a form of extinction.”

And the solution? Link to the real McCoys. Which I’m happy to do.

• Jonathan Eisen’s “Tree of Life” blog
• Tree of Life Web Project
• Tree of life (science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Green Tree of Life at Berkeley
  
• Fungal Tree of Life Project
  
• Beetle Tree of Life project
  
• Fly Tree of Life project
  
• Mammal Tree of Life project
  
• Cypriniformes Tree of Life project
  
• Liverwort Tree of Life Project
  
• Early Bird Tree of Life project
• Angiosperm Tree of Life project
  
• Cnidaria Tree of Life Project
  
• Decapoda Tree of Life Project
  

I do, however, need someone to explain to me just when “fertility” became a supernatural power.