The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen
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Quammen narrates how Carl Woese's ribosomal-RNA work, Lynn Margulis's endosymbiosis theory, and the discovery of horizontal gene transfer have shattered Darwin's neatly branching tree of life. The result is a 'tangled tree' where whole genomes cross species lines, rewriting the history of evolution and even the composition of our own cells.
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