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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.