Noller’s friendship with, 368–70
Pace’s friendship with, 320
paper on archaea coauthored by, 208, 209–12, 280, 363
phylogenetics paper of, 204–7, 206, 306
on phylogenomics, 332–33
privacy of, 366–67
progenitor of mitochondria found, 153–55
ratchet mechanism of protein production announced by, 97, 100
religious views of, 384–85
ribosomal RNA sequenced by, 54–55, 59, 60, 61–65, 78–80, 82, 83–84, 88–89, 90, 91–92, 93, 196, 202–3, 205, 206, 276, 283–84, 298, 318, 322–23
ridiculing of, 101–2, 103
and RNA fingerprinting, 59, 60, 82, 83–84, 88–89, 90, 91–92
16S rRNA’s importance in tree of life recognized by, 61, 145, 154, 195, 205, 212, 274, 281, 287–88, 306, 318, 327, 331
Sogin’s work under, 58–59, 62–63, 64, 320–21
and spore germination, 58
and symbiogenesis of chloroplasts, 130
three domains, of see archaea
and translation of DNA into proteins, 51–52, 53
upset with Darwin’s Playground, 334–35
Venter sequencing paper coauthored by, 275–76
Vossbrinck’s friendship with, 370–73
Woese, Carl, Sr., 97
Wolbachia bacteria, 261–62
Wolfe, Ralph, 68, 69, 78, 88–89, 90, 109
big tree paper coauthored by, 198
methanogen classification papers coauthored by, 93–95, 101, 103
ratchet model criticized by, 100
on reaction to announcement of archaea, 99–102
wolves, 294–95
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 321
World Health Organization, 231
worms, 182
wound infections, 87
xenotransplantation, 142
Yang, Dechen, 154
yaws, 134
yeast, 68, 76, 78, 294, 338
Yellowstone National Park, 86, 104, 159, 321–23
Yong, Ed, 317
Zhang, Feng, 364
Zillig, Wolfram, 107–8, 204, 209
Zinder, Norton, 228–29, 230, 231
Zolotonosov, Mikhail, 126, 129
zooids, 383
Zoological Museum, 172
Zoonomia: or the Laws of Organic Life (Erasmus Darwin), 5
Zuckerkandl, Emile, 92
on chemical paleogenetics, 42, 43, 44–45, 46, 56, 93, 113, 344
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14 Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
19 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
23 Drawn for Edward Hitchcock by Orra White Hitchcock.
33 Charles Darwin.
54 Illustration by Patricia J. Wynne.
69 Illustration by Patricia J. Wynne.
92 Illustration by Patricia J. Wynne.
105 Illustration by Patricia J. Wynne.
141 By permission of the Lynn Margulis Estate.
180 Ernst Haeckel.
183 Ernst Haeckel.
190 From Whittaker (1969), “New Concepts of Kingdoms of Organisms,” Science 163, no. 3863, fig. 3. Courtesy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, used by permission.
201 From Fox et al. (1980), “The Phylogeny of Prokaryotes,” Science 209, no. 4455, fig. 1. Courtesy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, used by permission.
206 Illustration by Patricia Wynne.
212 From Woese, Kandler, and Wheelis (1990), “Towards a Natural System of Organisms: Proposal for the Domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 87, no. 12, fig. 1. Courtesy of Mark L. Wheelis.
285 From Doolittle (1999), “Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree,” Science 284, no. 5423, fig. 3. Courtesy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, used by permission.
299 From Martin (1999), “Mosaic Bacterial Chromosomes: A Challenge En Route to a Tree of Genomes,” BioEssays 21, no. 2, fig. 2. Courtesy of William Martin.
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