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Biological Evolution of Microorganisms

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Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology

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Life on our planet earth must have started with quite simple unicellular organisms. Nowadays we have a large number of their evolutionary descendants in the world of microorganisms. We report here on scientific investigations with harmless intestinal bacteria which serve the scientists to explore molecular genetic processes of biological evolution. This research leads to the conclusion that biological evolution occurs in microorganisms by consecutive steps of genetic variation. This historical advance can be attributed to a process of self-organization that contributes to the permanent creation of appropriate biological capacities.

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  1. Biozentrum University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Werner Arber

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  1. UMR 7194 CNRS “Histoire naturelle de l’Homme préhistorique”, Département Homme et environnement, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris, France

    Anne Dambricourt Malassé

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Arber, W. (2022). Biological Evolution of Microorganisms. In: Dambricourt Malassé, A. (eds) Self-Organization as a New Paradigm in Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04783-1_7

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