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From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences

From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences

by Connie Barlow (Author)

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    Hardcover 1991

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Synopsis

In a well-blended presentation, writings from more than 30 scientists and science writers span scales from the biosphere to the cell to DNA, encompass disciplines from global ecology to behavior and genetics, and explore links between biology and philosophy.Connie Barlow is a science writer.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 286
 Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 28 Jun 1991
ISBN 10: 0262023237
ISBN 13: 9780262023238

Media Reviews
A crash course in modern biological thought... Many of the unmissable modem masters are here: James Lovelock on Gaia, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan on symbiosis in the cell, Robert Axelrod and William Hamilton on the evolution of cooperation, E.O. Wilson on sociobiology and Richard Dawkins on selfish genes and memes. It is a heady mix one that covers the spectrum from holism to reductionism, without giving houseroom to any but the best writers.... This is a book with a number of different messages. Yet those messages are often so powerful - and the writing so persuasive - that somehow you long for them all to be true. Bold and shocking biology has that effect on people. --Stephen Young, New Scientist
Author Bio
Connie Barlow is a science writer.