Tag: Frontiers in Microbiology
More Turbulence at the Base of the Tree of Life
For a theory whose empirical strength is so great that it cannot be doubted, universal common descent certainly is doubted a lot.
“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers
Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe.
Credulity Is the Soil for Darwin’s Tree
The secret is to restrict one’s explanations for life to unguided natural events. Once that decision has been made, everything else flows deductively from it.