The Society of Genes / Lercher Martin, Itai Yanai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yanai, Itai, Author.

Martin, Lercher, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetics.

Genetics--Social aspects.

Genetics--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780674915961

0674915968

9780674495081

067449508X

OCLC:

933835631