The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape By Katie Holten, Tin House Books. 320 pp. $26.96. Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Language trees are useful for depicting relationships of communities in the past 5,000 to 10,000 years or so, a period too short to be resolved by genetics–and exactly the time for which ...

In the 5½ years since the conflict began, many playwrights have weighed in on the Iraq war from military, political and ideological perspectives, but relatively few have focused on the home front.

A family tree of Indo-European languages suggests they began to spread and split about 9,000 years ago. The finding hints that farmers in what is now Turkey drove the language boom - and not later ...

Beautifully illustrated by author Katie Holten herself, The Language of Trees, which is a mix of texts, poems, song lyrics, essays, quotations and even recipes, is about trees and the natural world ...

The more we learn about science and nature, the more interesting it becomes. While no other species has quite the same communication ability as humans, other species do communicate. Dogs use their ...