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Chromosome techniques : theory and practice.
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ISBN: 0839106289 0408703075 9780839106289 9780408703079 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Butterworths

Origin and evolution of languages : approaches, models, paradigms.
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ISBN: 9781845532048 184553204X 9781845535537 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Equinox

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Ordinary genomes : science, citizenship, and genetic identities /.
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ISBN: 9780822345169 9780822345343 Year: 2009 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

Tempo and Mode in Evolution : Genetics and Paleontology 50 years after Simpson.
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ISBN: 0309051916 9786610193295 1280193298 0309552672 0585037221 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington D.C. National Academy Press

An introduction to evolutionary ecology
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ISBN: 0632027290 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford London Boston Blackwell Scientific

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The selfish gene
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ISBN: 0192177737 0192860925 9780192860927 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk. This revised edition of Dawkins' fascinating book contains two new chapters. One, entitled "Nice Guys Finish First," demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. The other new chapter, entitled "The Long Reach of the Gene," which reflects the arguments presented in Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. Containing a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world, the second edition once again drives home the fact that truth is stranger than fiction.

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