Article
Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Jul 1994
Doolittle W F, Brown J R
Abstract excerpt
Early cellular evolution differed in both mode and tempo from the contemporary process. If modern lineages first began to diverge when the phenotype-genotype coupling was still poorly articulated, then we might be able to learn something about the evolution of that coupling through comparing the molecular biologies of living organisms. The issue is whether the last common ancestor of all life, the cenancestor,...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Genotype
- Humans
- Origin of Life
- Phenotype
- Plants