Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Tree of Life A common premise
of all molecular phylogenetic methods is that genes are
transmitted via vertical, lineal inheritance, i.e. from ancestor
to descendant. It was anticipated that this method would
demonstrate the Darwinisn mechanism of common decent, and the
universal tree of life would be vindicated. However these
molecular comparisons began producing some very contradictory
results. The hoped for Darwinian Tree of Life (TOL) simply has
turned out to be more of a bush or even forest. The largest
biomedical research facility in the world is the National
Institutes of Health with its subdivisions, National Center for
Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, at
Bethesda, MD USA. This is what Eugene Koonin it’s Senior
Investigator along with colleges presented in their paper in
2001 Horizontal Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: Quantification and
Classification Eugene V. Koonin,1 Kira S. Makarova,1