- Preface: A Biography of Life
- I. The Time of Life: A Broadening Perspective
- 1. Life as History
- 2. Opening the Pentagon
- 3. Principles of Life
- 4. Inheritance with Memory
- 5. Walking down Memory Lane
- II. The Logic of Life: Complexity Made Simply
- 6. Cells as Cytospecies
- 7. Life on the Devo Scale: Cytospeciation and the Logic of Development
- 8. Life on the Eco Scale: Directed Change from a Threatening, Unpredictable World
- 9. Life on the Eco Scale: Making Sense of Complexity
- III. The Consistency of Life: EcoDevoEvo
- 10. Form Emerges in Many Ways
- 11. The Cooperative Genome
- 12. “Ligand Seeking Receptor. Objective: Binding Relationship”
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Suggested Reading by General Category
- References
- Index
The Mermaid’s Tale
Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things
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Publication Date: 02/15/2009
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