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By: Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:38:02 +0000

[…] groups that excluded plants and animals. I have previously reviewed books on Carl Woese and the discovery of Archaea that were soon elevated by one level from kingdom to domain. There are fascinating discussions here […]

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By: Book review – The Curious World of Bacteria | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Curious World of Bacteria | The Inquisitive Biologist — Wed, 10 May 2023 11:05:38 +0000

[…] that has taken the world by storm. Wess is particularly interested in extremophiles, the proverbial microbes from hell that can survive and often need extremes of temperature, acidity, or pressure. As he shows, this […]

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By: Book review – Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and other Planets | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:23:56 +0000

[…] and early organisms used this in their biochemistry to generate energy. This was the realm of the Archaea: the salt-tolerant, heat-loving, chemoautotrophic microbes for whom oxygen was poison and the Great […]

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By: Book review – The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:54:32 +0000

[…] – and could be the subject of a separate work (Patrick Forterre wrote just such a book with Microbes from Hell). Even later in life, as evidence for HGT piled up, Woese said it was only important billions of […]

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