The September 2010 issue of the journal Biology and Philosophy is all about the Tree of Life metaphor, especially in the light of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.
Biology and Philosophy vol. 24, n0. 4
Special Issue: The Tree of Life
Guest Edited by M.A.O`Malley
- The tree of life: introduction to an evolutionary debate Maureen A. O’Malley, William Martin and John Dupré
- The attempt on the life of the Tree of Life: science, philosophy and politics W. Ford Doolittle
- The series, the network, and the tree: changing metaphors of order in nature Olivier Rieppel
- Why was Darwin’s view of species rejected by twentieth century biologists? James Mallet
- Ernst Mayr, the tree of life, and philosophy of biology Maureen A. O’Malley
- Microbiology and the species problem Marc Ereshefsky
- The myth of bacterial species and speciation Jeffrey G. Lawrence and Adam C. Retchless
- Natural taxonomy in light of horizontal gene transfer Cheryl P. Andam, David Williams and J. Peter Gogarten
- Evaluating Maclaurin and Sterelny’s conception of biodiversity in cases of frequent, promiscuous lateral gene transfer Gregory J. Morgan
- Symbiosis, lateral function transfer and the (many) saplings of life Frédéric Bouchard
- Lifeness signatures and the roots of the tree of life Christophe Malaterre
- Gene sharing and genome evolution: networks in trees and trees in networks Robert G. Beiko
- Testing for treeness: lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic inference, and model selection Joel D. Velasco and Elliott Sober
- Trashing life’s tree L. R. Franklin-Hall
- On the need for integrative phylogenomics, and some steps toward its creation Eric Bapteste and Richard M. Burian
HT: The Dispersal of Darwin (via @darwinsbulldog)
what great links for us evolution (and genomicron!) laymen-fans. Especially if we don’t have access to them and all we can do is to stare at abstracts in silent envy. Damnit. So much for self-educating public.
Martin(Quote)
Sadly, I don’t control the access policy of the journal but hopefully the links are helpful for the readers of this blog who do have access through a university library subscription.
T. Ryan Gregory(Quote)
Hi Martin. Sorry for the inaccessibility. While this journal now has a paid ‘open access’ option, most philosophers and historians cannot get funds to pay such charges. And because this option is new, we hadn’t made plans for the scientists in the issue, all of whom might have been able to pay. I agree open access is very important – this is something humanities scholars need to address better in their publications and I hope there’ll be progress in the near future. The same group of scientists, philosophers and historians will be publishing a special issue ‘Beyond the Tree of Life’ in Biology Direct next year (full access to all readers).
For this issue, in Biology and Philosophy, please feel free to contact me for copies of any paper; likewise anyone else without access. The old ‘send me a reprint’ request system is always the best fallback when access isn’t open.
Maureen O’Malley, University of Exeter
Maureen O’Malley(Quote)