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 viii
... copies of the same genes . Such kin altruism is only one way in which gene selfish- ness can translate itself into individual altruism . This book explains how it works , together with reciprocation , Darwinian theory's other main ...
... copies of the same genes . Such kin altruism is only one way in which gene selfish- ness can translate itself into individual altruism . This book explains how it works , together with reciprocation , Darwinian theory's other main ...
Pagina 15
... copies of itself . This may seem a very unlikely sort of accident to happen . So it was . It was exceedingly improbable . In the lifetime of a man , things that are that improbable can be treated for practical purposes as impossible ...
... copies of itself . This may seem a very unlikely sort of accident to happen . So it was . It was exceedingly improbable . In the lifetime of a man , things that are that improbable can be treated for practical purposes as impossible ...
Pagina 16
... copies be made from other copies , which in their turn were made from other copies , and errors will start to become cumulative and serious . We tend to regard erratic copying as a bad thing , and in the case of human documents it is ...
... copies be made from other copies , which in their turn were made from other copies , and errors will start to become cumulative and serious . We tend to regard erratic copying as a bad thing , and in the case of human documents it is ...
Pagina 17
... copies of them- selves on average once a week while those of type B make copies of themselves once an hour , it is not difficult to see that pretty soon type A molecules are going to be far outnumbered , even if they ' live ' much ...
... copies of them- selves on average once a week while those of type B make copies of themselves once an hour , it is not difficult to see that pretty soon type A molecules are going to be far outnumbered , even if they ' live ' much ...
Pagina 18
... be bathed in a soup rich in the small building block molecules necessary to make copies . But when the replicators became numerous , building blocks must have been used up at such a rate that they became a 18 The replicators.
... be bathed in a soup rich in the small building block molecules necessary to make copies . But when the replicators became numerous , building blocks must have been used up at such a rate that they became a 18 The replicators.
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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altruism animals ants aphids Axelrod baby behaviour benefit biologists Biology birds body brain called cells chance chapter cheats child chromosome cooperation copies copulate cuckoo Darwin Darwinian Dawkins Defect eggs evolution evolutionarily stable evolutionarily stable strategy evolutionary evolve example expect Extended Phenotype fact favour female fight gene pool genetic unit group selection grudgers Hamilton handicap happen hawk human idea individual investment kin selection kind large number living look males mate Maynard Smith means meme molecules mother mutation naked mole rats nasty natural selection nest nice offspring organism paradoxical parasites parents particular play players population predators primeval soup Prisoner's Dilemma queen reason reciprocal altruism relatedness replicators reproduction retaliator rival selfish DNA selfish gene theory sexual snail social insects species sperms stable strategy suppose survival machines tend things tion Tit for Tat Trivers W. D. Hamilton workers young