“…The rest of this paper is concerned with the relationships among trees, networks, and the real moduli space of curves M 0,n (R), a variety from algebraic geometry [19] appearing in areas such as ζ-motives [13], geometric group theory [6], and Lagrangian Floer theory [11]. There is a substantial relationship between this moduli space and the space of phylogenetic trees: A hint of this relationship was originally discussed in [3], where M 0,n (R) was considered but deemed unsuitable for describing tree space.…”