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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Paperback)
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from steve02476
Very good book about the notion of an evolutionary tree of life and how reality is much more complex than the simple tree diagrams show. Also a lot of disagreements about what the major groupings of life are. (Personally I'm happy to go with plants, animals, and little one-called creatures.) I th...
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The real guts of this work is an accounting of the life and times of Carl Woese, a pioneer in the molecular analysis of life, and what it says about evolution, who had the misfortune to live long enough to see his insights transcended by new research and wasn't especially happy about it. If there...
from nmele
Quammen's book about the unraveling of some of evolution's workings is fascinating, both for the human characters and their interrelationships and for the molecular revelations of horizontal gene transfer and other discoveries. A couple of things I didn't like: his habit of dangling some long tec...
from waltzmn
We know about books with antiheroes. Is it possible to have a book with an anti-plot? This is a book containing a tremendous amount of biological information, mostly about the history of life, and it can teach you a lot of things that you didn't learn in high school biology -- in particular, abou...
from jefware
Aristotle taught us that species were inviolate. Darwin taught that species were volatile in time. Woese taught us that there is no species.
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