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 xi
... W. D. Hamilton , one of the four named heroes of the book . In a paper of 1972 ( the year in which I began to write The Selfish Gene ) Hamilton wrote : A gene is being favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas ...
... W. D. Hamilton , one of the four named heroes of the book . In a paper of 1972 ( the year in which I began to write The Selfish Gene ) Hamilton wrote : A gene is being favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas ...
Pagina xvi
... W. D. Hamilton and G. C. Williams in the sixties . For me their insight had a visionary quality . But I found their expressions of it too laconic , not full - throated enough . I was convinced that an amplified and developed version ...
... W. D. Hamilton and G. C. Williams in the sixties . For me their insight had a visionary quality . But I found their expressions of it too laconic , not full - throated enough . I was convinced that an amplified and developed version ...
Pagina xix
... W. D. Hamilton , G. C. Williams , and J. Maynard Smith . Now , for the first time , this important body of social theory based on natural selection is presented in a simple and popular form by Richard Dawkins . One by one Dawkins takes ...
... W. D. Hamilton , G. C. Williams , and J. Maynard Smith . Now , for the first time , this important body of social theory based on natural selection is presented in a simple and popular form by Richard Dawkins . One by one Dawkins takes ...
Pagina xxii
... W. D. Hamilton , and R. L. Trivers . Various people suggested titles for the book , which I have grate- fully used as chapter titles : ' Immortal Coils ' , John Krebs ; ' The Gene Machine ' , Desmond Morris ; ' Genesmanship ' , Tim ...
... W. D. Hamilton , and R. L. Trivers . Various people suggested titles for the book , which I have grate- fully used as chapter titles : ' Immortal Coils ' , John Krebs ; ' The Gene Machine ' , Desmond Morris ; ' Genesmanship ' , Tim ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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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