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The New Foundations of Evolution - On the Tree of Life (Hardcover)
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The New Foundations of Evolution - On the Tree of Life (Hardcover)
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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.
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