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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Carl R Woese; Lynn Margulis; Carl R Woese; Lynn Margulis |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Quammen |
ISBN: | 9781476776620 1476776628 9781476776637 1476776636 |
OCLC Number: | 1056746136 |
Description: | xviii, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Three surprises : an introduction -- Darwin's little sketch -- A separate form of life -- Mergers and acquisitions -- Big tree -- Infective heredity -- Topiary -- E pluribus human. |
Other Titles: | Radical new history of life |
Responsibility: | David Quammen. |
Abstract:
"In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field -- the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level -- is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important; we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived sideways by viral infection--a type of HGT."--Amazon.com.
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