''The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life'' is a popular science book written about the domain
Archaea. It was written by
John L. Howland and first published in 2000 by the
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
. The book records the, "archaeal rise from obscurity...to their current prominent place in
molecular and
evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes ( natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life ...
."
[Howland, John L. The surprising ''archaea'':Discovering another domain of Life. 2000. Oxford University Press. New York, New York. pg-v]
See also
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Carl Woese
Carl Richard Woese (; July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, ...
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Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya
References
2000 non-fiction books
Biology books
Evolutionary biology literature
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