he concept of a tree of life is a widespread mytheme or archetype in the

world's mythologies, related to the concept of sacred tree more generally,[1] and
hence in religious and philosophical tradition.

The expression Tree of Life was used as a metaphor for the phylogenetic tree of
common descent in the evolutionary sense in a famous passage by Charles
Darwin (1872).[2]

The tree of knowledge, connecting to heaven and the underworld, and the tree of
life, connecting all forms of creation, are both forms of the world tree or cosmic
tree, according to the Encyclopdia Britannica,[3] and are portrayed in various
religions and philosophies as the same tree.[4]