Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts Hardcover - 2000

Terry Burnham is an economics professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he studies the Darwinian origin of economic behaviors. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard in 1997. He has worked on Wall Street and is the co-founder of Progenics, a publicly traded biotechnology firm with promising treatments for cancer and AIDS. He studied chimpanzees in the African rainforest and drove a tank in the U.S. Marine Corps.Jay Phelan is a biology professor at UCLA. He received a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard in 1995, and master's and bachelor's degrees from Yale and UCLA. His main area of research is evolutionary genetics and aging. He has been featured on the BBC and on "Talk of the Nation" as well as in magazines and newspapers. An accomplished educator, he has received accolades and numerous awards for his teaching. Terry Burnham is an economics professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he studies the Darwinian origin of economic behaviors. He received a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard in 1997. He has worked on Wall Street and is the co-founder of Progenics, a publicly traded biotechnology firm with promising treatments for cancer and AIDS. He studied chimpanzees in the African rainforest and drove a tank in the U.S. Marine Corps.Jay Phelan is a biology professor at UCLA. He received a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard in 1995, and master's and bachelor's degrees from Yale and UCLA. His main area of research is evolutionary genetics and aging. He has been featured on the BBC and on "Talk of the Nation" as well as in magazines and newspapers. An accomplished educator, he has received accolades and numerous awards for his teaching.