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“A persuasive, amusing, and audience-friendly explanation of how our genes, designed for residing in the Stone-Age, aren't so well-worthy of life in the Current Age.” —Sean W. Carroll, writer of The Making of the Fittest and Amazing Animals   “It’s obtained thirty years, but we finally have in Greg Gibson’s It Requires a Genome what's certainly a biologist’s reaction to the one-gene emphasis of Rich Dawkin’s early traditional The Selfish Gene. And exactly what a reaction it's! In Gibson’s globe, a genome is seen by us being an integral whole, making sense only if the component components, the genes, are thought within their complete ecological and genomic framework.