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Author Yanai, Itai, 1975- author.

Title The society of genes / Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations
Contents Evolving cancer in eight easy steps -- How your enemies define you -- What's the point of having sex? -- The Clinton paradox -- Promiscuous genes in a complex society -- The chuman show -- It's in the way that you use it -- Theft, imitation, and the roots of innovation -- A secret life in the shadows -- Life's unwinnable war against freeloaders
Summary "Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to 'survival machines' whose sole purpose was to preserve 'the selfish molecules known as genes.' How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing atop a wealth of new research, The Society of Genes now provides a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life. Pioneers in the nascent field of systems biology, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher present a compelling new framework to understand how the human genome evolved and why understanding the interactions among our genes shifts the basic paradigm of modern biology. Contrary to what Dawkins's popular metaphor seems to imply, the genome is not made of individual genes that focus solely on their own survival. Instead, our genomes comprise a society of genes which, like human societies, is composed of members that form alliances and rivalries. In language accessible to lay readers, The Society of Genes uncovers genetic strategies of cooperation and competition at biological scales ranging from individual cells to entire species. It captures the way the genome works in cancer cells and Neanderthals, in sexual reproduction and the origin of life, always underscoring one critical point: that only by putting the interactions among genes at center stage can we appreciate the logic of life."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Itai Yanai is Associate Professor of Biology at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Martin Lercher is Professor of Bioinformatics at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
In English
Print version record
SUBJECT Bibel Genesis gnd
Subject Genetics.
Genetics -- Social aspects
Genetics -- Research.
Genetics
Genetic Phenomena
Sociological Factors
genetics.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
Genetics
Genetics -- Research
Genetics -- Social aspects
Mensch
Genom
Form Electronic book
Author Lercher, Martin, 1967- author.
LC no. 2019301414
ISBN 9780674495081
067449508X