As a further argument, Ford pointed out that a recently-published tree of life that was based on proteins that hadn't undergone horizontal gene transfer was built using only 31 proteins.

NPR's Scott Simon asks science writer David Quammen about horizontal gene transfer and how it changes how we think about humankind's place in the world. Quammen's new book is The Tangled Tree.

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NPR's Scott Simon asks science writer David Quammen about horizontal gene transfer and how it changes how we think about humankind's place in the world. Quammen's new book is The Tangled Tree.