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
... Darwinian theory's other main generator of altruism . If I were ever to rewrite the book , as a late convert to the Zahavi / Grafen ' handicap principle ' ( see pages 309–313 ) I should also give some space to Amotz Zahavi's idea that ...
... Darwinian theory's other main generator of altruism . If I were ever to rewrite the book , as a late convert to the Zahavi / Grafen ' handicap principle ' ( see pages 309–313 ) I should also give some space to Amotz Zahavi's idea that ...
Pagina xi
... Darwinian calcu- lations of altruism and selfishness , cooperation and spite . It is very easy to get the wrong answer . Personifying genes , if done with due care and caution , often turns out to be the shortest route to rescuing a ...
... Darwinian calcu- lations of altruism and selfishness , cooperation and spite . It is very easy to get the wrong answer . Personifying genes , if done with due care and caution , often turns out to be the shortest route to rescuing a ...
Pagina xii
... Darwinian world are assumed to be making an as - if calculation of what would be best for their genes . This particular paragraph goes on to make it explicit by a quick change to gene - level personification : That is to say , a gene ...
... Darwinian world are assumed to be making an as - if calculation of what would be best for their genes . This particular paragraph goes on to make it explicit by a quick change to gene - level personification : That is to say , a gene ...
Pagina xix
... Darwinian and pre - Mendelian view of the social and psychological world . Even within biology the neglect and misuse of Darwinian theory has been astonishing . Whatever the reasons for this strange development , there is evidence that ...
... Darwinian and pre - Mendelian view of the social and psychological world . Even within biology the neglect and misuse of Darwinian theory has been astonishing . Whatever the reasons for this strange development , there is evidence that ...
Pagina xx
... Darwinian social theory is reactionary in its political implications . This is very far from the truth . The genetic equality of the sexes is , for the first time , clearly established by Fisher and Hamilton . Theory and quantitative ...
... Darwinian social theory is reactionary in its political implications . This is very far from the truth . The genetic equality of the sexes is , for the first time , clearly established by Fisher and Hamilton . Theory and quantitative ...
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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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