The tangled tree : a radical new history of life
Quammen, David2018
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Scope and content: Ever since Darwin, we have used the metaphor of the 'tree of life' to explain evolution, but this metaphor no longer holds up. Genes don't just move vertically, they can also pass laterally across species boundaries, known as 'horizontal gene transfer' or 'HGT' and some have come sideways into our own primate lineage. In this book, the author chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them such as Carl Woese, the most important little-known biologist of the twentieth century; Lynn Margulis, the notorious maverick whose wild ideas about mosaic creatures proved to be true; and Tsutomu Wantanabe, who discovered that the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a direct result of horizontal gene transfer, bringing the deep study of genome histories to bear on a global crisis in public health.
Main title:
The tangled tree : a radical new history of life / David Quammen.
Author:
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2018.
Collation:
xvi, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Published in US by Simon & Schuster, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
pt. I Darwin's Little Sketch -- pt. II A Separate Form of Life -- pt. III Mergers and Acquisitions -- pt. IV Big Tree -- pt. V Infective Heredity -- pt. VI Topiary -- pt. VII E Pluribus Human.
ISBN:
9780008310684
Dewey class:
591.38
Language:
English
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BRN:
356588
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 591.38 QUA | Available |