The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things - Kenneth M. Weiss - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674031937 - February 1, 2009
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The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things

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While competitive natural selection is widely assumed to be evolution’s prime mover, Weiss shows how life generally works on the basis of cooperation. He reveals that focus on competition and cooperation is largely an artifact of compression of time—a distortion that dissolves when life is viewed from developmental and evolutionary time scales.


336 pages, 6 halftones, 52 line illustrations, 1 table

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 1, 2009
ISBN13 9780674031937
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 166 × 248 × 27 mm   ·   670 g
Language English  

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