Symbiosis: evolution in action -- The meanings of mutualism -- Socially constructing the individual -- Symbiogenesis in Russia -- Engendering Genesis stories -- Les Symbiotes and germ theory -- The pasteurization of Les Symbiotes -- Les Symbiotes revisited -- Verbal phantoms -- Organisms and the edge of disciplines -- Molecular reconstruction -- The dull edge of Ockham's Razor -- Is nature motherly?
Summary
Our evolution and that of all plants and animals is not thought to be due solely to the gradual accumulation of gene changes within species. Symbiosis is at the root of our being. This book is a systematic history of this emerging field and gives an account of the growth of a biological idea
Analysis
Symbiosis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-248) and index
Notes
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