The Tangled Tree by David Quammen

06/09/2018 13h 48min
The Tangled Tree by David Quammen

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Title: The Tangled Tree
Author: David Quammen
Narrator: Jacques Roy
Format: mp3
Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 09-06-18
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Ecology
Publisher's Summary:
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 percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection.