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The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene
The Imitation Factor Evolution Beyond The Gene
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Is imitation really the best compliment? As Lee Alan Dugatkin's powerful work of cutting-edge science reveals, imitation is the most profound compliment you can give anyone. It might last for millions of years. An acclaimed biologist, Dugatkin has identified and mapped the effects of a powerful, overlooked, and deceptively simple factor in evol...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780684864532
ISBN-10: 0684864533
Publication Date: 1/8/2001
Pages: 256
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book develops the concept of how cultural evolution is working and how animals develop and use cultural traits. develops the concept that genetics is not everything and that all or almost all animals change their genes or so change themselves in cultural groups to alter those genes. Very enlightening.


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