Darwinian transition
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Darwinian transition:
A term proposed by Carl Woese to describe a transition period during the evolution of cells when genetic transmission moved from a predominantly horizontal mode to a vertical mode. After this life is characterised by genealogies that have a more modern tree-like phylogeny.
