The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary editionOUP Oxford, 16 mrt 2006 - 384 pagina's The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. |
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Pagina viii
... Darwinism concerns the unit that is actually selected : what kind of entity is it that survives , or does not survive , as a consequence of natural selection . That unit will become , more or less by definition , ' selfish ' . Altruism ...
... Darwinism concerns the unit that is actually selected : what kind of entity is it that survives , or does not survive , as a consequence of natural selection . That unit will become , more or less by definition , ' selfish ' . Altruism ...
Pagina xi
... Darwin- ian theorist drowning in muddle . While trying to exercise that caution , I was encouraged by the masterful precedent of W. D. Hamilton , one of the four named heroes of the book . In a paper of 1972 ( the year in which I began ...
... Darwin- ian theorist drowning in muddle . While trying to exercise that caution , I was encouraged by the masterful precedent of W. D. Hamilton , one of the four named heroes of the book . In a paper of 1972 ( the year in which I began ...
Pagina xiv
... Darwinism , unless it is with a negative sign . Our brains have evolved to the point where we are capable of rebelling against our selfish genes . The fact that we can do so is made obvious by our use of contraceptives . The same ...
... Darwinism , unless it is with a negative sign . Our brains have evolved to the point where we are capable of rebelling against our selfish genes . The fact that we can do so is made obvious by our use of contraceptives . The same ...
Pagina xv
... Darwin's theory , expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness , I should like to think , he would instantly have recognized and delighted in . It is in fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo - Darwinism , but ...
... Darwin's theory , expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness , I should like to think , he would instantly have recognized and delighted in . It is in fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo - Darwinism , but ...
Pagina xvi
... Darwinism is implicit in the writings of R. A. Fisher and the other great pioneers of neo - Darwinism in the early thirties , but was made explicit by W. D. Hamilton and G. C. Williams in the sixties . For me their insight had a ...
... Darwinism is implicit in the writings of R. A. Fisher and the other great pioneers of neo - Darwinism in the early thirties , but was made explicit by W. D. Hamilton and G. C. Williams in the sixties . For me their insight had a ...
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4 The gene machine | 46 |
stability and the selfish machine | 66 |
6 Genesmanship | 88 |
7 Family planning | 109 |
8 Battle of the generations | 123 |
10 You scratch my back Ill ride on yours | 166 |
the new replicators | 189 |
12 Nice guys finish first | 202 |
13 The long reach of the gene | 234 |
Endnotes | 267 |
Updated bibliography | 333 |
Index and key to bibliography | 345 |
Extracts from reviews | 353 |
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