Why is Life the Way it Is?

The concept of the three domains of life (the bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes) goes back to Carl Woese in 19901. Most scientists now see the eukaryotes (cells with a true nucleus) as a secondary domain, derived from bacteria and archaea via an endosymbiosis2. That makes the last universal common an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nick Lane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2019-06-01
Series:Molecular Frontiers Journal
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Online Access:http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S252973251940008X