Evolution by association : a history of symbiosis / Jan Sapp.

  • Sapp, Jan.
Date:
1994
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Publication/Creation

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Physical description

xvii, 255 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Contents

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?

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 213-248) and index

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  • 0195088212
  • 0195088204