The Society of Genes /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Yanai, Itai,
Lercher, Martin,
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

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