The Mermaid's Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things
As an attempt to replace the dominant selectionist paradigm,The Mermaid's Taleis sure to raise more than a few eyebrows among evolutionary biologists. At the very least, it ought to make them think very hard--as they should--about entertaining alternatives to our current received wisdom. (Ian Tattersall, Curator in the Division of Anthropology,  American Museum of Natural History)