Phylogeny and beyond: Scientific, historical, and conceptual significance of the first tree of life
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- 20 January 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 109 (4) , 1011-1018
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109716109
Abstract
In 1977, Carl Woese and George Fox published a brief paper in PNAS that established, for the first time, that the overall phylogenetic structure of the living world is tripartite. We describe the way in which this monumental discovery was made, its context within the historical development of evolutionary thought, and how it has impacted our understanding of the emergence of life and the characterization of the evolutionary process in its most general form.Keywords
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