David Quammen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 461 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field the study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular levels horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. It turns out that HGT has been widespread and important. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not...