Life, in all its richness and variety, evolved over time – much, much time. This, Biohistory Emaki, beautifully depicts the history and underlying interrelationships of this evolution.
A genome is a set of the genetic material of an organism, its collection of cellular DNA that forms the basis for that creature. In our quest to understand life, we focus on genomes, on the histories they tell, on intricate plots they follow. It’s all here, in the Biohistory Emaki.

Integrating the three expressions of Biohistory

Biohistory Emaki, Biohistory New Emaki, and Biohistory Mandala --these three expressions of life each commemorate a decade in the activities of the JT Biohistory Research Hall. We brought them together to create this, a conical expression of the whole. The conic axis is indicative of time; and the horizontal rays emanating from it, of hierarchy. And, spanning both time and hierarchy are the genomes of living creatures.