As a microbial molecular biologist but an amateur in evolutionary
questions, I wonder if anyone out there has some info as to just
how universally accepted is Woese's division of living things
into the three domains Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. I know
that as of fairly recently Lynn Margulis was still arguing for
the Monera and the five-kingdom system, and I believe Ernst Mayr
has even continued to argue for the old two-kingdom model. Does
anyone know of other prominent holdouts? Does anyone have a
reference to a recent paper giving a strong argument for continuing
to place all prokaryotes in a single kingdom or domain?
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Steve LaBonne *********************** (labonnes at csc.albany.edu)
"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." - Wallace Stevens
