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The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life (Paperback)
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New
York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the 'tree of
life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health
and our own human nature, has recently completely changed. This
book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth -
through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method
- the reading of the deep history of life by looking at the
variation in protein molecules found in living organisms. For
instance, we now know that roughly eight per cent of the human
genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly
ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection. In The Tangled
Tree, acclaimed science writer David Quammen 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. Quammen explains how molecular studies of evolution
have brought startling recognitions about the tangled tree of life
- including where we humans fit into it. Thanks to new
technologies, we now have the ability to alter even our genetic
composition - through sideways insertions, as nature has long been
doing. The Tangled Tree is a brilliant exploration of our
transformed understanding of evolution and of life's history
itself.
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