The Mermaid's Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things

by Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan

Even after 150 years, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is irresistibly compelling. But how can this idea--in which competition prevails--be consistent with all that we know about the thoroughly cooperative nature of life at the genetic and cellular level? This book reconciles these discrepancies.

Assembling a set of general principles, authors Kenneth Weiss and Anne Buchanan build a comprehensive, unified theory that applies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674031938
• ISBN13: 9780674031937
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"