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

"Jan Sapp's book will increase the consciousness of the intellectual baggage of evolutionary thinking that we all are carrying around. It is a must-read for anyone with the slightest interest in the historical background to the current controversies regarding the role of horizontal gene transfer and how this affects the notion of a tree of life for prokaryotes."--Systematic Biology
"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 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 taxonomy, both antiquated and modern. --W.P. Hanage, Science Magazine
"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