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Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198876397)
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xFor 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.
Author: Jonathan Silvertown
ISBN-10: 0198876394
ISBN-13: 9780198876397
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.20d
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.
Author: Jonathan Silvertown
ISBN-10: 0198876394
ISBN-13: 9780198876397
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.20d
By Jonathan Silvertown
xJonathan 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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