The Mermaids Tale by Kenneth M Weiss
While competitive natural selection is widely assumed to be evolutions prime mover, Weiss shows how life generally works on the basis of cooperation. He reveals that focus on competition and cooperation is largely an artifact of compression of timea distortion that dissolves when life is viewed from developmental and evolutionary time scales.
As an attempt to replace the dominant selectionist paradigm, The Mermaid's Tale is sure to raise more than a few eyebrows among evolutionary biologistsAt the very least, it ought to make them think very hard--as they should--about entertaining alternatives to our current received wisdom. -- Ian Tattersall, Curator in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History
Kenneth M. Weiss is Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology and Genetics, Emeritus, in the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. Anne V. Buchanan was, until her retirement, Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674031937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674031938 |
| Title | The Mermaids Tale |
| Author | Kenneth M Weiss |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2009-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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