Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications fo…
The tangled tree: a radical new history of life
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 level -- is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the mo…
A la jonction de la théorie de l'évolution et de la pensée médicale, se développe depuis peu une discipline originale - on parle parfois de "médecine darwinienne". Cette médecine évolutionniste nous aide à comprendre comment les maladies infectieuses apparaissent et évoluent, po…
Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution explores the origin of metamorphosis, how it evolved, and how it is it regulated. The book discusses insect metamorphosis as a key innovation in insect evolution. With most of the present biodi…
