The interpretation of recent environmental genomics data exposes the far-reaching influence of horizontal gene transfer, and is changing our basic concepts of organism, species and evolution itself.
@article{arxiv.q-bio/0702015,
title = {Biology's next revolution},
author = {Nigel Goldenfeld and Carl Woese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0702015},
year = {2009}
}
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Slightly expanded version of invited essay published in Nature. The most important addition is a complete set of references that could not be included in the published version due to space limitations and acknowledgment of the grant that supported our work