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 ix
... Chapter 1 , epitomised by the sentence ' Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish ' . There is nothing wrong with teaching generosity and altruism , but ' born selfish ' is misleading . In partial ...
... Chapter 1 , epitomised by the sentence ' Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish ' . There is nothing wrong with teaching generosity and altruism , but ' born selfish ' is misleading . In partial ...
Pagina x
... Chapter 5 develops the idea , using the analogy of a rowing crew , and Chapter 13 takes it further . Now , given that natural selection for selfish genes tends to favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are ...
... Chapter 5 develops the idea , using the analogy of a rowing crew , and Chapter 13 takes it further . Now , given that natural selection for selfish genes tends to favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are ...
Pagina xiv
... Chapters 9 , 10 and 12 , and the whole of Chapter 8. Not only is his Foreword a beautifully crafted introduction to the book : unusually , he chose the medium to announce to the world a brilliant new idea , his theory of the evolution ...
... Chapters 9 , 10 and 12 , and the whole of Chapter 8. Not only is his Foreword a beautifully crafted introduction to the book : unusually , he chose the medium to announce to the world a brilliant new idea , his theory of the evolution ...
Pagina xvii
... chapters , and I shelved the project until I had a sabbatical leave in 1975. Meanwhile the theory had been extended ... Chapter 12 owes more than just its title to my experience of working closely with Jeremy Taylor and the Horizon team ...
... chapters , and I shelved the project until I had a sabbatical leave in 1975. Meanwhile the theory had been extended ... Chapter 12 owes more than just its title to my experience of working closely with Jeremy Taylor and the Horizon team ...
Pagina 3
... chapter . If genes really turn out to be totally irrelevant to the determination of modern human behaviour , if we really are unique among animals in this respect , it is , at the very least , still interesting to inquire about the rule ...
... chapter . If genes really turn out to be totally irrelevant to the determination of modern human behaviour , if we really are unique among animals in this respect , it is , at the very least , still interesting to inquire about the rule ...
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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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