Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 24;109(4):1011-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1109716109. Epub 2012 Jan 17.
In 1977, Carl Woese and George Fox published a brief paper in PNAS that established, for the first time, that the overall phylogenetic structure of the living world is tripartite. We describe the way in which this monumental discovery was made, its context within the historical development of evolutionary thought, and how it has impacted our understanding of the emergence of life and the characterization of the evolutionary process in its most general form.
1977 年，卡尔·沃斯（Carl Woese）和乔治·福克斯（George Fox）在《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）上发表了一篇简短的论文，首次确立了生命世界的整体系统发生结构是三分的。我们描述了这一重大发现是如何做出的，它在进化思想历史发展中的背景，以及它如何影响我们对生命起源的理解和最普遍形式的进化过程的特征。
