The new foundations of evolution : on the tree of life /
Presenting a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present, this book follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system & primary life forms: three domains & multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike thos...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780199734382 0199734380 9781282235465 128223546X 9786612235467 6612235462 0199889171 9780199889174 0197702163 9780197702161 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Animal, vegetable, or mineral?
- Microbes first
- The germ of phylogeny
- Creatures void of form
- About chaos
- Kingdoms at biology's borders
- The prokaryote and the eukaryote
- On the unity of life
- Symbiotic complexity
- The morning of molecular phylogenetics
- Roots in the genetic code
- A third form of life
- A kingdom on a molecule
- Against adaptationism
- In the capital of the new kingdom
- Out of Eden
- Big tree
- The dawn cell controversy
- Three domains
- Disputed territories
- Grappling with a worldwide web
- Entangled roots and braided lives.