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Kin - How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives (Hardcover)
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Kin - How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives (Hardcover)
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Since Darwin, people have speculated about the evolutionary
relationships among dissimilar species, including our connections
to the diverse life forms known as microbes. In the 1970s
biologists discovered a way to establish these kinships. This new
era of exploration began with Linus Pauling's finding that every
protein in every cell contains a huge reservoir of evolutionary
history. His discovery opened a research path that has changed the
way biologists and others think about the living world. In Kin John
L. Ingraham tells the story of these remarkable breakthroughs. His
original, accessible history explains how we came to understand our
microbe inheritance and the relatedness of all organisms on Earth.
Among the most revolutionary scientific achievements was Carl
Woese's discovery that a large group of organisms previously lumped
together with bacteria were in fact a totally distinct form of
life, now called the archaea. But the crowning accomplishment has
been to construct the Tree of Life-an evolutionary project Darwin
dreamed about over a century ago. Today, we know that the Tree's
three main stems are dominated by microbes. The nonmicrobes-plants
and animals, including humans-constitute only a small upper branch
in one stem. Knowing the Tree's structure has given biologists the
ability to characterize the complex array of microbial populations
that live in us and on us, and investigate how they contribute to
health and disease. This knowledge also moves us closer to
answering the tantalizing question of how the Tree of Life began,
over 3.5 billion years ago.
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