Carl Woese was not a well-known personality outside of microbiology and evolutionary biology, but he forever changed our understanding of the biosphere and its evolution. He passed away at his home in Urbana, Illinois, on 30 December 2012. Carl Woese developed the modern gene sequence--based understanding of biological organization, showing that the evolutionary history of lineages can be tracked to a common ancestral state. In doing so, he discovered the third domain of life, which came to be known as the archaea. His story is the epitome of the outsider, a lone and dedicated visionary who overthrew a century of dogma and established thought and brought about a revolution that has touched every area of modern biology.
...MoreDescription Woese worked on microbiology, evolutionay biology, and the evolution of the biosphere.
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John L. Ingraham;
(2017)
Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives
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Sapp, Jan;
(2008)
The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese
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Brockwell, John;
Sprent, Janet I.;
Day, David A.;
(2013)
Fraser John Bergersen 1929--2011
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Ruse, Michael;
(2013)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
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Article
Ellen Clarke;
(2016)
Levels of Selection in Biofilms: Multispecies Biofilms Are Not Evolutionary Individuals
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Russell Winslow;
(2017)
Organism and Environment: Inheritance and Subjectivity in the Life Sciences
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Article
Jean-Michel Claverie;
Chantal Abergel;
(2016)
Giant viruses: The difficult breaking of multiple epistemological barriers
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Article
Kim, Eun-Sung;
(2008)
Directed Evolution: A Historical Exploration into an Evolutionary Experimental System of Nanobiotechnology, 1965--2006
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Zachary D. Blount;
(2016)
A case study in evolutionary contingency
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David R. Singleton;
Rivers Singleton;
(2017)
Remembering Our Forebears: Albert Jan Kluyver and the Unity of Life
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Sapp, Jan;
(2009)
The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life
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Jan Peter Verhave;
(2019)
A Constant State of Emergency: Paul de Kruif: Microbe Hunter and Health Activist
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Kiselev, Lev L.;
Levina, Elena S.;
(2004)
Lev Aleksandrovich Zil'ber
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Offit, Paul A.;
(2007)
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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Buican, Denis;
(2003)
L'épopée du vivant: l'évolution de la biosphère et les avatars de l'homme
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Article
Urs Gessner;
(2016)
Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884–1974): His Ambitions, Approach and Achievements
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Moberg, Carol L.;
(2005)
René Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist
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Sangodeyi, Funke Iyabo;
(2014)
The Making of the Microbial Body, 1900s-2012
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Mark Honigsbaum;
Pierre-Olivier Méthot;
(2020)
Introduction: Microbes, Networks, Knowledge—Disease Ecology and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Time of Covid-19
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Victoria Lee;
(2021)
The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
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