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The Cooperative Gene
其他書名
How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
出版Simon and Schuster, 2001
ISBN07432016129780743201612
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X1n2BawkqxEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Why isn's all life pond-scum? Why are there multimillion-celled, long-lived monsters like us, built from tens of thousands of cooperating genes? Mark Ridley presents a new explanation of how complex large life forms like ourselves came to exist, showing that the answer to the greatest mystery of evolution for modern science is not the selfish gene; it is the cooperative gene." "In this thought-provoking book, Ridley breaks down how two major biological hurdles had to be overcome in order to allow living complexity to evolve: the proliferation of genes and gene-selfishness. Because complex life has more genes than simple life, the increase in gene numbers poses a particular problem for complex beings."--BOOK JACKET.