Talk:Carl Woese
From Academic Kids
''Such famous figures as Salvador Luria and Ernst Mayr found the idea that prokaryotes were not all of one kind absurd, and did not restrict their mockery to the scientific level.
This is a badly stereotyped view of Woese's critics. Actually, one of Mayr's criticisms of the three-domain system was that prokaryotes may be of more than two kinds, i.e. that the Eubacteria and criticism of him was restricted to the scientific level.
which leaves a lot to be said, but I think does more justice.
