Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life - Hardcover
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Languages: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
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, Silvertown digs deeper, to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs, to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together, to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.
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, Silvertown digs deeper, to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs, to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together, to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.
Languages: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 Ecology at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh, and Chair of Technology-Enhanced Science Education in Biological Sciences, he is now, following retirement, an Honorary Professor in the Institute.
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