The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution

Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree—and why it matters for understanding the health of all living things

In The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative of evolution needs to evolve. Ever since Darwin, evolution has largely been thought to work like a family tree in which species are related through a series of branching events. But, today, a growing knowledge of the ways species share genetic materials in a process known as horizontal evolution h...