"The Third Domain" is the untold story of how the discovery of a new form of life - first ridiculed, then ignored for the past thirty years by mainstream scientists - is revolutionizing science, industry, and even our search for extraterrestrial life. Classification is a serious issue for science: if you don't know what you're looking at, how can you interpret what you see? Starting with Carolus Linnaeus in the 17th century, scientists have long struggled to order and categorize the many forms of life on Earth.

“第三个领域”是一个不为人知的故事，讲述了一种新的生命形式的发现——最初被主流科学家嘲笑，然后在过去三十年中被忽视——是如何给科学、工业乃至我们对地外生命的探索带来革命性的变化的。分类对于科学来说是一个严肃的问题：如果你不知道你在看什么，你如何解释你所看到的？从17世纪的Carolus Linnaeus开始，科学家们长期以来一直在努力对地球上多种形式的生命进行排序和分类。