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• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 30 June 2009

Covering all species from yeast to humans, this is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 28 May 1989

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic

• Publisher : Open Book Publishers
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• Release Date : 13 October 2017

Are humans violent or peaceful by nature? We are both. In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Agner Fog presents a ground-breaking new argument that explains the existence of differently organised

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 11 January 2016

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

• Publisher : Sackler Colloquium
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• Release Date : 28 May 2024

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 June 2009

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 28 February 2007

In Gene Sharing and Evolution Piatigorsky explores the generality and implications of gene sharing throughout evolution and argues that most if not all proteins perform a variety of functions in

• Publisher : Harper Collins
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• Release Date : 26 March 2013

“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He

• Publisher : National Academies Press
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• Release Date : 28 August 2016

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health challenges, including the reduction of poverty and the

• Publisher : OUP USA
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• Release Date : 01 March 2012

In this volume, the psychiatrist Robert Klitzman explores how individuals confront the complex issues associated with genetic testing in their daily lives.