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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... called them outlaw genes , others ultra - selfish genes , yet others just ' selfish genes ' misunderstanding the subtle difference from genes that cooperate in self - interested car- tels . Examples of ultra - selfish genes are the ...
... called them outlaw genes , others ultra - selfish genes , yet others just ' selfish genes ' misunderstanding the subtle difference from genes that cooperate in self - interested car- tels . Examples of ultra - selfish genes are the ...
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... called The Selfish Lion might actually confuse , in a way that The Selfish Gene should not . Just as one can put oneself in the position of an imaginary light beam , intelligently choosing the optimal route through a cascade of lenses ...
... called The Selfish Lion might actually confuse , in a way that The Selfish Gene should not . Just as one can put oneself in the position of an imaginary light beam , intelligently choosing the optimal route through a cascade of lenses ...
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... 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 from the nest ...
... 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 from the nest ...
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... called the struggle for existence , the individual seems best regarded as a pawn in the game , to be sacrified when the greater interest of the species as a whole requires it . To put it in a slightly more respectable way , a group ...
... called the struggle for existence , the individual seems best regarded as a pawn in the game , to be sacrified when the greater interest of the species as a whole requires it . To put it in a slightly more respectable way , a group ...
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... called purines and pyrimidines . These are building blocks of the genetic molecule , DNA itself . Processes analogous to these must have given rise to the ' primeval soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some ...
... called purines and pyrimidines . These are building blocks of the genetic molecule , DNA itself . Processes analogous to these must have given rise to the ' primeval soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some ...
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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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