Acquiring genomes : a theory of the origins of species / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
Acquiring genomes : a theory of the origins of species / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
Acquiring genomes : a theory of the origins of species / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
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New York, NY : Basic Books, 2002.
Date
2002.
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T0360676
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English
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xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Ernst Mayr -- Pt. 1. The Evolutionary Imperative -- 1. Darwinism Not Neodarwinism -- 2. Darwin's Dilemma -- 3. Relative Individuality -- 4. The Natural Selector -- 5. Principles of Evolutionary Novelty -- Pt. 2. The Microbe in Evolution -- 6. Species and Cells -- 7. History of the Heritab...
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New York, NY : Basic Books, 2002.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2002.
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"The result of thirty years of delving into a vast, mostly arcane literature, this is the first book to go beyond - and reveal the severe limitations of - the dogmatic thinking that has dominated evolutionary biology for almost three generations. Lynn Margulis, whom E. O. Wilson called "one of the most successful synthetic thinkers in modern biolog...
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Acquiring genomes : a theory of the origins of species / Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 576.86/3.
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T0360676
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0465043925
9780465043910 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0465043917 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780465043927
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576.86
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991016906069702626
