Acquiring Genomes

Author: Lynn Margulis
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0465043925

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species

How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it comes from. Download Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of The Origin Of Species from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. His successors thought that new species arise from the gradual accumulation of random mutations of DNA. But despite its acceptance in every major textbook, there is no documented instance of it. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan take a radically new approach to this question. They show that speciation events are not, in fact, rare or hard to observe. Genomes are acquired by infection, by feeding, and by other ecological associations, and then inherited. Acquiring Genomes is the first work to integrate and analyze the overwhelming mass of evidence for the role of bacterial and othe Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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