Re:Mosaicism: The genome varies from cell to cell
by lisper on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:37PM
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The classic work on this topic is "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, and its more technical sibling, "The Extended Phenotype."
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.