Paul Rommel Elvira

Reporter Genome Paul Rommel Elvira

One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science is the origin of life on Earth. In this refreshing new look at the evolution of life, the reader is taken on a journey billions of years back into the planet's primeval conditions to revisit the possibility of organic precursors being introduced from another world. This is a story of how humans, armed with intelligence, curiosity and an innovative genome, could have been shaped to become the reporter species of Earth, with the help of biological mechanisms that include horizontal gene transfer, gene creation, modular systems and a predictable evolution.