The Tangled Tree by David Quammen

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/235941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tangled Tree Author: David Quammen Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins Release date: 08-14-18 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 1,198 ratings Genres: Animals Publisher's Summary: In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling discovery to come out of this new field is horizontal gene transfer (HGT), or the movement of genes across species lines. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived not through traditional inheritance from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection - a type of HGT. In The Tangled Tree David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them.