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Science 29 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5526, pp. 2437 - 2438
DOI: 10.1126/science.1062022
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EVOLUTION:
Mutated into Oblivion
A review by Lynda F. Delph
Mendel's Demon Gene Justice and the Complexity of Life
by Mark Ridley
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2000. 351 pp. 20 pounds. ISBN 0-297-64634-6.
released in the US as
The Cooperative Gene How Mendel's Demon Explains the Evolution of Complex Beings
Free Press, New York, 2001. 336 pp. $26, C$39.50. ISBN 0-7432-0161-2.
Ridley offers an intriguing consideration of the origins, persistence, and future prospects of complex life. He discusses how organisms adapted to deal with mutational mistakes in the copying of DNA, and he interprets the complicated process of meiosis as a mechanism that evolved to check selfish genes.
The author is in the Department of Biology, Indiana University, Jordan Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. E-mail: ldelph{at}bio.indiana.edu
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