The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings by Mark Ridley

The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings

Mark Ridley

336 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
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Why isn't 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, s...

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