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 xii
... body of each brother and sister saved , and its chances of surviving in the body of the runt are very small anyway . And then the paragraph immediately switches back to the intro- spective runt : There should be a point of no return in ...
... body of each brother and sister saved , and its chances of surviving in the body of the runt are very small anyway . And then the paragraph immediately switches back to the intro- spective runt : There should be a point of no return in ...
Pagina xix
... body of social theory based on natural selection is presented in a simple and popular form by Richard Dawkins . One by one Dawkins takes up the major themes of the new work in social theory : the concepts of altruistic and selfish ...
... body of social theory based on natural selection is presented in a simple and popular form by Richard Dawkins . One by one Dawkins takes up the major themes of the new work in social theory : the concepts of altruistic and selfish ...
Pagina 5
... body off its sexual stride . Indeed , since the insect head is the seat of some inhibitory nerve centres , it is possible that the female improves the male's sexual performance by eating his head . * If so , this is an added benefit ...
... body off its sexual stride . Indeed , since the insect head is the seat of some inhibitory nerve centres , it is possible that the female improves the male's sexual performance by eating his head . * If so , this is an added benefit ...
Pagina 6
... body , and the bee dies soon afterwards . Her suicide mission may have saved the colony's vital food stocks , but ... bodies , feed them at enormous cost to themselves , and take great risks in protecting them from predators . To take ...
... body , and the bee dies soon afterwards . Her suicide mission may have saved the colony's vital food stocks , but ... bodies , feed them at enormous cost to themselves , and take great risks in protecting them from predators . To take ...
Pagina 13
... body . The precise thornbush shape of a protein molecule such as haemoglobin is stable in the sense that two chains consisting of the same sequences of amino acids will tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three ...
... body . The precise thornbush shape of a protein molecule such as haemoglobin is stable in the sense that two chains consisting of the same sequences of amino acids will tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three ...
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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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