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Genes in Conflict

Harvard University Press eBooksPublished 31 December 2006
Austin Burt, Robert Trivers
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TL;DR

This book discusses three ways to achieve "Drive" within-Individual Kinship Conflicts rates of Spread Effects on the Host Population, and the study of Selfish Genetic Elements.

Abstract

Covering all species from yeast to humans, this is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism.

Keywords

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology