391 citations · 925 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
q-bio.PE2010★ 293 cited
Life is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium
Nigel Goldenfeld, Carl Woese
Evolution is the fundamental physical process that gives rise to biological phenomena. Yet it is widely treated as a subset of population genetics, and thus its scope is artificial…
q-bio.PE2007★ 241 cited
Biology's next revolution
Nigel Goldenfeld, Carl Woese
The interpretation of recent environmental genomics data exposes the far-reaching influence of horizontal gene transfer, and is changing our basic concepts of organism, species and…
q-bio.PE2006★ 391 cited
Collective evolution and the genetic code
Kalin Vetsigian, Carl Woese, Nigel Goldenfeld
A dynamical theory for the evolution of the genetic code is presented, which accounts for its universality and optimality. The central concept is that a variety of collective, but…