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The Third Domain - The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
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The Third Domain - The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
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The Third Domain is the untold story of how the discovery of a new
form of life-first ridiculed, then ignored for the past thirty
years by mainstream scientists-is revolutionizing science,
industry, and even our search for extraterrestrial life.
Classification is a serious issue for science: if you don't know
what you're looking at, how can you interpret what you see?
Starting with Carolus Linnaeus in the 17th century, scientists have
long struggled to order and categorize the many forms of life on
Earth. But by the early 20th century the tree of life seemed to
have stabilized, with two main domains of life at its roots:
single-celled and multi-celled organisms. All creatures fit into
one of these two groups. Or so we thought. But in 1977, a lone
scientist named Carl Woese determined that archaea-biochemically
and genetically unique organisms that live and thrive in some of
the most inhospitable environments on Earth-were a distinct form of
life, unlike anything seen on Earth before. This shocking discovery
was entirely incompatible with the long-standing classification of
life as we know it. But as it turned out, archaea were not life as
we know it, and the tree of life had to be uprooted once again.
Now, archaea are being hailed as one of the most important
scientific revelations of the 20th century. The Third Domain tells
the story of their strange potential and investigates their
incredible history to provide a riveting account of an astonishing
discovery. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Life in the Outer
LImits 2 Bug Hunt 3 What the Heck Is It? 4 The Witch's Garden 5
Rust Never Sleeps 6 Us... and Them 7 Carpe Diem 8 Money for
Nothin', Bugs for Free Notes Acknowledgments Index Photo Well
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