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Arborescent
Arborescent is a term used by the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari to characterize thinking marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism. The term, first used in A Thousand Plateaus (1980) where it was opposed to the rhizome, comes from the way genealogy trees are drawn: unidirectional progress, with no possible retroactivity and continuous binary cuts (thus enforcing a dualist metaphysical conception, criticized by Deleuze). Rhizomes, on the contrary, mark an horizontal and non-hierarchical conception, where anything may be linked to anything else, with no respect whatsoever for specific species: rhizomes are heterogeneous links between things that have nothing to do between themselves (for example, Deleuze and Guattari linked together desire and machines to create the - most surprising - concept of desiring machines). Horizontal gene transfer is also an example of rhizomes, opposed to the arborescent evolutionism theory. Deleuze also criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.

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The diversification of early arborescent seed ferns
Jan 01, 2006; GALTIER, J. AND B. MEYER-BERTHAUD. (UMR Botanique et Bioinformatique, CIRAD, TA40/PS2, 34398 Montpellier, France). The...
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arborescent
Jan 01, 1999; arborescent See DENDRITIC .
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A review of the temperate broad-leaved evergreen forest zone of Southeastern North America: floristic affinities and arborescent vegetation types.
Jul 01, 2003; I. Abstract II. Introduction III. Application of Walter's Classification of Ecological Systems IV. Review of the Atlantic and...
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Functional characteristics of the arborescent genus Polylepis along a latitudinal gradient in the high Andes/ Caracteristicas funcionales del genero arborescente Polylepis en un gradiente latitudinal en los altos andes/ Caracteristicas funcionais do genero arborescente Polylepis em um gradiente latitudinal nos altos andes.
Oct 01, 2007; SUMMARY Polylepis is a genus restricted to the Andean Mountain Range, naturally occurring above the upper continuous forest...
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Overall Kinetics and Morphology of the Products of Austenite Decomposition in a Fe-0.46 Pct C-5.2 Pct Cr Alloy Transformed Isothermally Above the Bay
Jun 01, 2006; The overall transformation kinetics of austenite isothermal decomposition above the bay of the time-temperature-transformation...
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