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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... birds perform a so - called ' distraction display ' when a predator such as a fox approaches . The parent bird limps away from the nest , holding out one wing as though it were broken . The predator , sensing easy prey , is lured away ...
... birds perform a so - called ' distraction display ' when a predator such as a fox approaches . The parent bird limps away from the nest , holding out one wing as though it were broken . The predator , sensing easy prey , is lured away ...
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... birds or reptiles instead , in order to prevent the extinction of the class . But then , what of the need to perpetuate the whole phylum of vertebrates ? It is all very well for me to argue by reductio ad absurdum , and to point to the ...
... birds or reptiles instead , in order to prevent the extinction of the class . But then , what of the need to perpetuate the whole phylum of vertebrates ? It is all very well for me to argue by reductio ad absurdum , and to point to the ...
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... bird alarm calls , in that it seems to warn companions of danger while apparently calling the predator's attention to the stotter himself . We have a responsibility to explain stotting Tommies and all similar phenomena , and this is ...
... bird alarm calls , in that it seems to warn companions of danger while apparently calling the predator's attention to the stotter himself . We have a responsibility to explain stotting Tommies and all similar phenomena , and this is ...
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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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