Sex and the origins of death / by William R. Clark.
Sex and the origins of death / by William R. Clark.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Date
1996.
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T0387972
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English
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xii, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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New York (State)
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1996.
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The somatic cells become, from a genetic point of view, both superfluous and dangerous. Nature's solution to this dilemma, Clark concludes, was programmed death - the somatic cells must die. Unfortunately, we are the somatic cells. Death is necessary to exploit to the fullest the advantages of sexual reproduction.
Why must we die? To shed light on this question, Clark reaches far back in evolutionary history, to the moment when "inevitable death" (death from aging) first appeared. For cells during the first billion years, death, when it occurred, was accidental; there was nothing programmed into them that said they must die. But fierce competition gradually...
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Sex and the origins of death / by William R. Clark.
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Includes index.
Bibliography : p. 181-185.
Transferred from N574.8765/1.
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T0387972
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74VvZOADBKJy
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0195121198 (pbk)
019510644X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195121193 (pbk)
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574.8765
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991004584299702626
