Title The mermaid's tale : four billion years of cooperation in the making of living things / Kenneth M. Weiss, Anne V. Buchanan

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Pt. 1. The Time of Life: A Broadening Perspective -- 1. Life as History -- 2. Opening the Pentagon -- 3. Principles of Life -- 4. Inheritance with Memory -- 5. Walking down Memory Lane -- Pt. 2. The Logic of Life: Complexity Made Simply -- 6. Cells as Cytospecies -- 7. Life on the Devo Scale: Cytospeciation and the Logic of Development -- 8. Life on the Eco Scale: Directed Change from a Threatening, Unpredictable World -- 9. Life on the Eco Scale: Making Sense of Complexity -- Pt. 3. The Consistency of Life: EcoDevoEvo -- 10. Life on the Evo Scale: Form Emerges in Many Ways -- 11. The Cooperative Genome -- 12. The Legacy of Cooperation -- App. A. Some of the Codes Contained in DNA and RNA: Appendix to Chapter 4 -- App. B. The Hox Code and Axial Patterning: Appendix to Chapter 7 -- App. C. The Logic of Image Detection: Appendix to Chapter 9 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-292) and index Subject Life -- Origin. Evolution (Biology) Natural selection. Author Buchanan, Anne V. LC no. 2008037860 ISBN 9780674031937 alkaline paper 0674031938 alkaline paper

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