Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198876397ISBN-10:198876394UPC:9780198876397Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Evolution, Genetics & GenomicsSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCSJGV9RJ5
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life
For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?
Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society,...
Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198876397ISBN-10:198876394UPC:9780198876397Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Evolution, Genetics & GenomicsSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCSJGV9RJ5
Jonathan Silvertown, Honorary Professor, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh Jonathan Silvertown is an evolutionary biologist who has published widely on plant population biology. He is the author of eight books, including Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution and, most recently, The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh. Formerly Professor of Evolutionary...
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