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Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw


Author: Editors: Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy
Book ISBN or Item Number: 978-1-55581-540-0

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Editors
 
Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School
Stanley Maloy, San Diego State University
 
 
About the Book
 
Explore the fundamental role of microbes in the natural history of our planet…

Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, Microbes and Evolution continues to celebrate Charles Darwin and his landmark book On the Origin of Species. Through this collection of 40 first-person essays written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, you’ll come to understand how their thinking and career paths in science were influenced by Darwin’s seminal work.
 
The essays in Microbes and Evolution explore how the evidence of microbial evolution deeply and personally affected each scientist. Prepare to be surprised and delighted with their views on the importance of evolutionary principles in the study of a variety of aspects of life science, from taxonomy, speciation, adaptation, social structure, and symbiosis to antibiotic resistance, genetics and genomics. 
 
Reviews
 

Richard Losick, Maria Moors Cabot Professor, Harvard University -
A breathtaking range of topics are woven together under a common theme that takes the reader from the origin of microbial life to its diversity, from mutualism and competition to efforts to recapitulate evolution, from the diversity of bacterial viruses to "the smallest and most abundant microorganism in the ocean."

 
Charles Yanofsky, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Stanford University -
This book is an excellent collection of articles and should be read by everyone working with bacteria (and others as well) or thinking of doing so.
 
Moselio Schaechter, Professor Emeritus, Tufts University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, San Diego State University; and, Visiting Scholar, University of California at San Diego -
To celebrate the anniversary of both Darwin's birth and the publication of On the Origin of Species, a select group of microbiologists met in the Galapagos Islands, bent on reconciling modern microbiology with classical evolutionary theory. Their essays, born of this historic gathering, appear here, each written in an erudite yet highly personal style. Consequently, this book is not only highly informative, but a great deal of fun to read. About half of them had something to say about Darwin; the other half, what Darwin would have said about them. 
 
 
Paperback, 299 pgs., full color illustrations, index.
 

Number of Pages: 299
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: ASM Press
Title: Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw

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