The Society of Genes / / Martin Lercher, Itai Yanai.
Since Dawkins popularized the notion of the selfish gene, the question of how these selfish genes work together to construct an organism remained a mystery. Now, standing atop a wealth of new research, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher—pioneers in the field of systems biology—provide a vision of how gen...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 57 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1. Evolving Cancer in Eight Easy Steps
- 2. How Your Enemies Define You
- 3. What’s the Point of Having Sex?
- 4. The Clinton Paradox
- 5. Promiscuous Genes in a Complex Society
- 6. The Chuman Show
- 7. It’s in the Way That You Use It
- 8. Theft, Imitation, and the Roots of Innovation
- 9. A Secret Life in the Shadows
- 10. Life’s Unwinnable War against Freeloaders
- Epilogue
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index