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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... animals are the most complicated and perfectly - designed pieces of machinery in the known universe . Put it like ... animal behaviour . My debt to the ethological tradition in which I was trained will be obvious . In particular , Niko ...
... animals are the most complicated and perfectly - designed pieces of machinery in the known universe . Put it like ... animal behaviour . My debt to the ethological tradition in which I was trained will be obvious . In particular , Niko ...
Pagina 2
... animals , are machines created by our genes . Like successful Chi- cago gangsters , our genes have survived , in some cases for millions of years , in a highly competitive world . This entitles us to expect certain qualities in our ...
... animals , are machines created by our genes . Like successful Chi- cago gangsters , our genes have survived , in some cases for millions of years , in a highly competitive world . This entitles us to expect certain qualities in our ...
Pagina 3
... animals , man is uniquely dominated by culture , by influences learned and handed down . Some would say that culture is so important that genes , whether selfish or not , are virtually irrelevant to the understanding of human nature ...
... animals , man is uniquely dominated by culture , by influences learned and handed down . Some would say that culture is so important that genes , whether selfish or not , are virtually irrelevant to the understanding of human nature ...
Pagina 5
... animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by individual animals . Blackheaded gulls nest in large colonies , the nests being only a few feet apart . When the chicks first hatch out they are small and ...
... animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by individual animals . Blackheaded gulls nest in large colonies , the nests being only a few feet apart . When the chicks first hatch out they are small and ...
Pagina 7
... animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the acts of altruistic self- sacrifice that are observed in ... animals will in general behave in such a way as to favour the perpetuation of the species . Altruism towards fellow ...
... animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the acts of altruistic self- sacrifice that are observed in ... animals will in general behave in such a way as to favour the perpetuation of the species . Altruism towards fellow ...
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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