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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sapp, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.