ria, later sened toarchaea.

    It  ttributes t distinguiseria are not t t a biologist. tly differences in tidoglycan. But in practice t from bacteria ted division of life, so fundamentalt it stood above t tree of Life, as it isratially known.

    In 1976, artled t least ttle bit of it t tention—byredraree of life to incorporate not five main divisions, but ty-tegories—Bacteria, Arcimesspelled Eucarya)—which he called domains.

    oese’s ne take torm. Some dismissed too ed to ignored to Frances As, “felt bitterly disappointed.” But slocs. Botanists and zoologists s virtues.

    It’s not o see edto a feermost brancounicellular beings.

    “t up to classify in terms of gross morpies anddifferences,” oese told an intervieerms of molecularsequence is a bit o s see a difference like it. And so ted raditional five-kingdom division—an arrangement t oese called “not very useful” in s and “positively misleading” muc of time. “Biology, like p,” oese e, “o a level erest and teractions often cannot be perceived t observation.”

    In 1998 t and ancient  Ernst Mayr ( time of my ing is nearing one ill going strong) stirredt furt t two prime divisions of life—“empires”

    ional Academy of Sciences,Mayr said t oese’s findings eresting but ultimately misguided, noting t“oese  trained as a biologist and quite naturally does not ensivefamiliarity ion,”  can come to saying of anot  kno.

    ticisms are too teco need extensive airing ic sexuality, ion, and controversial i