Carl Woese (IMAGE)

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Carl Woese

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Microbiologist Carl Woese led the team that identified the archaea as a unique domain of life, distinct from bacteria and other organisms. Prior to this finding, generations of evolutionary biologists and microbiologists believed that the microbes now called archaea were simply another taxon among bacteria. Some still hold to this view.

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