The Cooperative Gene: How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex BeingsSimon and Schuster, 2001 - 324 Seiten "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. |
Inhalt
Keeping Living Things Simple | 1 |
The Gene Number of the Beast | 28 |
The Mutational Meltdown | 55 |
The History of Error | 79 |
The Ultimate Existential Absurdity | 108 |
Darwinian Mergers and Acquisitions | 133 |
The Justice of the Peas | 165 |
The Long Reach of the Lawbreaker | 199 |
The Human Condition | 229 |
A Complex Future | 252 |
Glossary | 276 |
Note and References | 285 |
Bibliography | 304 |
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