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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... child of those times , fatten it with new facts or wrinkle it with complications and cautions . So , the original text should stand , warts , sexist pronouns and all . Notes at the end would cover corrections , responses and ...
... child of those times , fatten it with new facts or wrinkle it with complications and cautions . So , the original text should stand , warts , sexist pronouns and all . Notes at the end would cover corrections , responses and ...
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... child whose question heads this chapter . We no longer have to resort to supersti- tion when faced with the deep problems : Is there a meaning to life ? What are we for ? What is man ? After posing the last of these questions , the ...
... child whose question heads this chapter . We no longer have to resort to supersti- tion when faced with the deep problems : Is there a meaning to life ? What are we for ? What is man ? After posing the last of these questions , the ...
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... children . They may incubate them , either in nests or in their own bodies , feed them at enormous cost to themselves , and take great risks in protecting them from predators . To take just one particular example , many ground - nesting ...
... children . They may incubate them , either in nests or in their own bodies , feed them at enormous cost to themselves , and take great risks in protecting them from predators . To take just one particular example , many ground - nesting ...
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... refuse to make any sacrifice . It there is just one selfish rebel , prepared to exploit the altruism of the rest , then he , by definition , is more likely than they are to survive and have children . Each Why are people ? 7.
... refuse to make any sacrifice . It there is just one selfish rebel , prepared to exploit the altruism of the rest , then he , by definition , is more likely than they are to survive and have children . Each Why are people ? 7.
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30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. than they are to survive and have children . Each of these children will tend to inherit his selfish traits . After several generations of this natural selection , the ' altruistic group ' will ...
30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. than they are to survive and have children . Each of these children will tend to inherit his selfish traits . After several generations of this natural selection , the ' altruistic group ' will ...
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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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