Edouard Chatton
Encyclopedia
Édouard Chatton (edwaʁ ʃatɔ̃} was a French biologist who first distinguished between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organisation, and coined the terms themselves in his 1925 paper, Pansporella perplex: Reflections on the Biology and Phylogeny of the Protozoa.http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1197417#id2360497
Jan Sapp
: The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Dichotomy: Meanings and Mythology
External links
- A timeline of Chatton's life on http://www.pasteur.fr
Jan Sapp
Jan Sapp
Jan Sapp is an historian of biology at York University, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the traditional neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution...
: The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Dichotomy: Meanings and Mythology