The tangled tree : a radical new history of life
Quammen, David, 1948-2019
Book
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.
Main title:
The tangled tree : a radical new history of life / David Quammen.
Author:
Quammen, David, 1948-, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2019.
Collation:
xvi, 461 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780008310714 (pbk)
Dewey class:
572.838
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
392087