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Re:Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell by qop on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:17PM (#17127608)
This was fascinating.

Can you recommend any good books about genetics and natural selection to people who don't have a biology background? I can handle some math, but I just break software for a living and I don't know biology.

Sorry for the sidetrack, but thanks for posting this. I've always wondered about some of the higher order implications of natural selection, and ants are a great example. Like how megacolonies take in ants from other places, that's so crazy because it doesn't make sense once you're looking at a small enough perspective but makes perfect sense at a larger scale. Bees are cool too.

Re:Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell by lisper on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:37PM (#17127807)
The classic work on this topic is "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, and its more technical sibling, "The Extended Phenotype."
Re:Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell by nitrogen on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:40PM (#17127840)
Also interesting is Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
Re:Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell by qop on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:57PM (#17127996)
Ah! I had heard of that before but I didn't remember.

Thanks!