false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176691523m/645443.jpg 645443 1 <i>The Third Domain</i> <b>is the untold story of how the discovery of a new form of life—first ridiculed, then ignored for the past thirty years by mainstream scientists—is revolutionizing science, industry, and even our search for extraterrestrial life.</b> <br><br>Classification is a serious issue for science: if you don&rsquo;t know what you&rsquo;re looking at, how can you interpret what you see? Starting with Carolus Linnaeus in the 17th century, scientists have long struggled to order and categorize the many forms of life on Earth. But by the early 20th century the tree of life seemed to have stabilized, with two main domains of life at its roots: single-celled and multi-celled organisms. All creatures fit into one of these two groups. <br><br>Or so we thought. But in 1977, a lone scientist named Carl Woese determined that archaea—biochemically and genetically unique organisms that live and thrive in some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth—were a distinct form of life, unlike anything seen on Earth before. This shocking discovery was entirely incompatible with the long-standing classification of life as we know it. But as it turned out, archaea were not life as we know it, and the tree of life had to be uprooted once again. <br><br>Now, archaea are being hailed as one of the most important scientific revelations of the 20th century. <i>The Third Domain</i> tells the story of their strange potential and investigates their incredible history to provide a riveting account of an astonishing discovery. 631603 2007 Third Domain: The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology total:2|4:1|3:1| 2 7 11 1 4 0 false false Sun Jan 27 13:50:09 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 13:50:22 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 15:13:55 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 15:14:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:25:57 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:25:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 21 09:46:26 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 09:46:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 11 05:21:25 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 05:35:13 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Dec 12 06:02:45 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 23 09:22:36 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 17 13:56:35 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 13:57:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun May 04 06:20:50 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 06:20:54 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 10 01:23:48 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 01:33:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jan 16 14:21:17 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 16 14:21:23 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 24 15:26:28 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 15:26:28 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=645443