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Author Eldredge, Niles.

Title Why we do it : rethinking sex and the selfish gene / Niles Eldredge.

Imprint New York : Norton, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  155.3 El24w 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 269 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.
Contents The duality of life -- Obsessed with genes -- Chickens and eggs : the two sides of life -- The natural economy -- The consequences of baby making -- Economics + babies + time = evolution -- Clones, colonies, and social life -- Human singularities -- Naught so queere as folke : the strange biology of modern humans -- The human triangle -- Sex decoupled -- Up close and personal : sex, power, money, and babies -- Sex, economics, and babies in social systems -- A moral to the story.
Subject Sex (Biology)
Sociobiology.
Human evolution.
ISBN 0393326950 (pbk.)
0393050823 (hardcover)
9780393050820 (hardcover)
9780393326956 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 259663697
NZ1 8170856

 
    
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