An Odd Fish

According to its first sentence, "this book is a biography of life," but anyone expecting an historical account of life on Earth over the past four billion years will be disappointed. According to Weiss and Buchanan, the mermaids of their title are impossible creatures because they are ass...

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Published inBioScience Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 157 - 159
Main Author Lamb, Marion J.
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Circulation, AIBS, 1313 Dolley Madison Blvd., Suite 402, McLean, VA 22101. USA American Institute of Biological Sciences 01.02.2010
Harvard University Press
University of California Press
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Biographies
Biological evolution
Cellular structures
Codes
Coding
Colleges & universities
Competition
Darwinism
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Evolution
Evolutionary genetics
Genetic code
Genetic inheritance
Genetics
Heredity
Historical account
Molecular Biology
Organisms
Population genetics
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Summary:According to its first sentence, "this book is a biography of life," but anyone expecting an historical account of life on Earth over the past four billion years will be disappointed. According to Weiss and Buchanan, the mermaids of their title are impossible creatures because they are assembled from parts coming from different sequestered branches of developmental and evolutionary trees.
ISSN:0006-3568
1525-3244
DOI:10.1525/bio.2010.60.2.12