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Cooperative Gene

By Mark Ridley
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By Mark Ridley
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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, 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 ...

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