Kin : : How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives / / John L. Ingraham.
By unlocking the evolutionary information contained in cells, biologists have been able to construct the Tree of Life and show that its three main stems are dominated by microbes. Plants and animals constitute a small upper branch in one stem. Soon we may know how life began over 3.5 billion years a...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. Discovering the Tree of Life
- 1. The Tree's Microbial Branches
- 2. Relationships among Organisms
- 3. Enter DNA
- 4. The Rosetta Stone
- 5. From the Tree's Roots to Its Branches
- Part Two. Doubts and Complications
- 6. Genes from Neighbors
- 7. Can the Receiving Cell Say No?
- 8. Can the Tree Be Trusted?
- Part Three. Understanding the Tree of Life
- 9. The Tree's Ecological Fruit
- 10. The Tree's Beginnings
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index