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You can’t have 1st and 2nd without the 3rd kind
I think the comic is about types of published articles with the 3rd being “we collated and collected a bunch of data to make this database that other researchers will find useful”-type papers. So you don’t need to rely on the map of every tree if you just map some trees yourself.
I like the way it kinda works regardless of if the punchline is about biological or computer science trees
Don’t forget ethnographers and the surname Tree
The map from the third is the “circumstances” of the first two. Or the “results”. First two just theorists, I guess.