"A cladogram is like a family tree. It's a way of organizing dinosaurs based on the unique characteristics they share, like a three-toed foot or a hole in the hip socket."
"A cladogram is like a phylogenetic tree. • Both show that the relatedness of any two groups by how recently the groups have had shared a common ancestor."
"Many of these seem, at first glance,
to be unique, until we discuss that
the cladogram is like a mobile,
so that having the same terminal
branches A and B is not different
than B and A"
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.