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Revised edition of an entertaining and thought-provoking book by the author of "The Blind Watchmaker" and "The Selfish Gene".
Synopsis
This text covers topics such as: genetic determinism and gene selectionism; constraints on perfection; the active germ-line replicator; outlaws and modifiers; selfish DNA, jumping genes, and a lamarckian scare; the genetic evolution of animal artefacts; and host phenotypes of parasite genes.