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Joan Roughgarden, The genial gene: deconstructing Darwinian selfishness

University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009, ix + 255 pp., $ 24.95 (Cloth), $18.95 (Paper)

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Ghiselin, M.T. Joan Roughgarden, The genial gene: deconstructing Darwinian selfishness. J Bioecon 14, 287–293 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-012-9128-2

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