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Excellent coverage on this from Carl Zimmer over at The Loom:
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Festooning The Tree Of Life | The Loom | Discover Magazine
Bacteria and other single-celled microbes make up much more of life’s genetic diversity, and they were around for three billion years before animals showed up for the party. So much of the history of life may not fit the tree metaphor very well any more. No longer can we assume that the genes in a species all have the same history. Some of them may have leaped from species to species. |
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Doesn't this directly contradict Moon's assertion that bacteria are quite sophisticated and have evolved as much as humans?
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