Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
2: Microbes First
3: The Germ of Phylogeny
4: Creatures Void of Form
5: About Chaos
6: Kingdoms at Biology's Borders
7: The Prokaryote and the Eukaryote
8: On the Unity of Life
9: Symbiotic Complexity
10: The Morning of Molecular Phylogenetics
11: Roots in the Genetic Code
12: A Third Form of Life
13: A Kingdom on a Molecule
14: Against Adaptationism
15: In the Capital of the New Kingdom
16: Out of Eden
17: Sketching the Tree of Life
18: The Dawn Cell Controversy
19: Three Domains
20: Disputed Territories
21: Grappling the World Wide Web
22: Entangled Roots and Braided Lives
Concluding Remarks

About the Author

Jan Sapp is a Professor in the Department of Biology at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Reviews

"Perhaps the highest compliment I can pay The New Foundations of Evolution is that having read it, I feel that I better understand the minds of my own fellow microbiologists. That Sapp makes his story so sparkling is an achivement all the more impressive when one remembers he must include a fair amount of taconomy, both antiquated and modern."--W.P. Hanage Science
"Penetrating and paradigm-shifting. Sapp expertly... brings alive the dynamism at the heart of one of the most significant revolutions in the history of biology."--American Scientist
"This book recounts in a very thoughtful and accessible way the historical making of a tripartite relationship, that of microbiology, biological classification, and evolution, and how this triangle is still evolving to generate a more holistic vision of evolutionary biology."--The Quarterly Review of Biology