Jan Sapp (ed.)
（2005年，Oxford University Press，ISBN:0195168771）
系統学の本なのだが，微生物系統学の「歴史（現代史）」に関する論文集としても読める．The Tree of Life のもっとも深い“根幹”部分に関わる論議の集成．編者の Jan Sapp さんは生物学史研究者で，これまでにも20世紀遺伝学史をデーマにした『Beyond the Gene: Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics』（1987年，Oxford University Press，ISBN:0195042069）や共進化研究史『Evolution by Association: A History of Symbiosis』（1994年，Oxford University Press，ISBN:0195088212）などの単著があります．今回の本も新刊予告では単著みたいな書き方だったが，編著でした．
【目次】
Foreword / Joshua Lederberg vii
Contributors xix
The bacterium's place in nature / Jan Sapp 3
The large-scale structure of the tree of life / Norman R. Pace 53
The molecular phylogeny of bacteria based on conserved genes / Wolfgang Ludwig and Karl-Heinz Schleifer 70
Evolving biological organization / Carl Woese 99
If the tree of life fell, would it make a sound? / W. Ford Doolittle 119
Woe is the tree of life / William Martin 134
The robustness of intermediary metabolism / Harold J. Morowitz, Daniel Broyles, and Howard Lasus 154
Molecular sequences and the early history of life / Radhey Gupta 160
Fulfilling Darwin's dream / James Lake et al. 184
Paradigm lost / C.G. Kurland 207
Contemporary issues in mitochondrial origins and evolution / Michael W. Gray 224
On the origin and evolution of plastids / John M. Archibald and Patrick J. Keeling 238
The karyomastigont model of eukaryosis / Hanna Melnitsky, Frederick A. Rainey, and Lynn Margulis 261
The missing piece: the microtubule cytoskeleton and the origin of eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan 281
Heritable microorganisms and reproductive parasitism / John H. Werren. 290
Index 317
