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The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things Kenneth M. Weiss
The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things
Kenneth M. Weiss
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 |