The New Foundations of Evolution
On the Tree of Life
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2009. július 30.
- ISBN 9780195388503
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem448 oldal
- Méret 155x231x22 mm
- Súly 635 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 1 black and white halftone, 30 line illustrations 0
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Rövid leírás:
This book presents a history of microbial evolutionary biology from the 19th century to the present. It follows the research of molecular evolutionists who explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms: three domains and multiple kingdoms, created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the microbiosphere. Jan Sapp introduces us to a new field of evolutionary biology and a new brand of molecular evolutionists who descend to the foundations of evolution on Earth to explore the origins of the genetic system and the primary life forms from which all others have emerged. In so doing, he examines-from Lamarck to the present-the means of pursuing the evolution of complexity, and of depicting the greatest differences among organisms.
The New Foundations of Evolution takes us into a world that classical evolutionists could never have imagined: a deep phylogeny based on three domains of life and multiple kingdoms, and created by mechanisms very unlike those considered by Darwin and his followers. Evolution by leaps seems to occur regularly in the microbial world where molecular evolutionists have shown the inheritance of acquired genes and genomes are major modes of evolutionary innovation.
Revisiting the history of microbiology for the first time from the perspective of evolutionary biology, Sapp shows why classical Darwinian conceptions centering on questions of the origin of species were forged without a microbial foundation, why classical microbiologists considered it impossible to know the course of evolution, and classical molecular biologists considered the evolution of the molecular genetic system to be beyond understanding. In telling this stirring story of scientific iconoclasm, this book elucidates how the new evolutionary biology arose, what methods and assumptions underpin it, and the fiery controversies that continue to shape biologists' understanding of the foundations of evolution today.
It is a must-read for anyone with the slightest interest in the historical background to the current controversies regarding the role of horizontal gene transfer and how this affects the notion of a tree of life for prokaryotes.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Foreword
Preface
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
Sketching the Tree of Life
The Dawn Cell Controversy
Three Domains
Disputed Territories
Grappling the World Wide Web
Entangled Roots and Braided Lives
Concluding Remarks
