title: Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life
author:  Henry Gee 
description: Since 1869, when its inaugural issue appeared, the international journal <I>Nature</I> has been at the forefront of research in the life sciences, publishing sometimes controversial, even revolutionary work in such fields as genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary theory. Its first issue included T. H. Huxley's report on Triassic dinosaurs, which brought public attention to the new discipline of paleontology; subsequent issues helped rehabilitate the reputation of Gregor Mendel and revise the human fossil record, among other achievements. Lately, through exponents such as senior editor Henry Gee, <I>Nature</I> has advocated work in cladistics, a taxonomic system that considers ecological relationships as well as evolutionary lineages in classifying living things, which Gee has elsewhere called "a revolution in thought as profound as that of Darwinian evolution by natural selection."
zlib_text: CULTURE 
  AGAINST 
  MAN 
  JULES HENRY 
  VINTAGE BOOKS 
  A Division of Random House 
  NEW YORK 
  
  V283 
  VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, AUGUST 1965 
  Copyright© 1963 by Random House, Inc. 
  All rights reserved under International and Pan­
  American Copyright Conventions. Published in 
  the United States by Random House, Inc., New 
  York and simultaneously in Canada 'by Random 
  House of Canada Limited, Toronto 
  Manufactured in the' United States of America 
  
  'fo my daughter PHYLLIS 
  
  PREFACE 
  AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
  I HAVE.FINISHED THIS BOOK-IN APRIL i962, IN THE TENTH 
  month of my sabbatical year. The earth looks good from my win= 
  dow: the last protective brown leaves are falling from the oak and 
  little yellow-green ones start from the twigs and .branches of the 
  willow; the Japanese quince is full of tiny leaves, and the tinier 
  buds of the quince blossoms are already pink among them. The 
  peach tree that my wife planted from a pit is ten feet high this 
  spring, and the dogwood is gray with a foam of new bu