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If you look at the tree of life, it also looks similar in shape to neuronal structures.

Is this shape a purposeful commonality in the universe?

Is it the basis for exchange of information, and if so is it significant that the "tree of life" looks this way?

Examples

Computer file structures
the internet
genealogy (evolution, tree of life)
roots
lightning
cracks in ice
complex systems?
DNS queries
Academic credibility looks this way
Dewey decimal system

Ramify is the verb.

Ramification is the noun