Hyman Hartman
(1936- )
Hyman Hartman is a research scientist at MIT. His special interest has been to deduce the origin of life, of the genetic code, of the ribosome, of the eukaryotic cell, of photosynthesis, and of the metabolic cycle, by looking into their information structures and attempting to locate their oldest evolutionary parts.
He calls his approach a
documentary hypothesis, after the biblical analysts who found the oldest written parts, for example the J-writer and E-writer, by linguistic analysis.
References
Clay Minerals and the Origin of Life, (edited by A. G. Cairns-Smith and Hyman Hartman,Cambridge University Press, (1986).)
Speculations on the Origin and Evolution of Metabolism (J. Molecular Evolution (1975) 4 359-370)
Speculations on the Evolution of the Genetic Code II (Origins of Life (1978) 9 133-136)
Speculations on the Evolution of the Genetic Code III: The Evolution of tRNA (Origins of Life (1984) 14 643 648. )
Speculations on the Origin of the Genetic Code (J. Molecular Evolution (1995) 40:541-544 )
Photosynthesis and the Origin of Life (Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere (1998) 28 515-21 )
The Origin and Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis (Trends in Biochemical Sciences (1998) 23 94-7 , with R.E. Blankenship)
The Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell: a Genomic Investigation (J. Molecular Evolution (2002) PNAS 99 1420-5, with Alexei Fedorov)
The Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell? (J. Molecular Evolution (2004) 59:695–702, with Alexei Fedorov)
The Origin and Evolution of the Ribosome (Biology Direct (2008) 3:16)
The Evolution of the Ribosome and the Genetic Code (Life 2014, 4, 227-249, with Temple Smith)
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