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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056746136 Title: The tangled tree : a radical new history of life Author: David Quammen Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2019. ©2018 ISBN/ISSN: 9781476776620 1476776628 9781476776637 1476776636 OCLC:1056746136

  
  

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The tangled tree : a radical new history of life

Author:	David Quammen
Publisher:	New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2019. ©2018
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : English : First Simon & Schuster paperback editionView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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.  Read more...
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Subjects	Woese, Carl R. Margulis, Lynn, -- 1938-2011. Phylogeny -- Molecular aspects. View all subjects
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