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 xiv
... evolutionary theory , will come to be seen as part of the tide which has rolled the Thatcherites and their concept of a fixed , 19th century com- petitive and xenophobic human nature into power . The ' Sussex don ' was the late John ...
... evolutionary theory , will come to be seen as part of the tide which has rolled the Thatcherites and their concept of a fixed , 19th century com- petitive and xenophobic human nature into power . The ' Sussex don ' was the late John ...
Pagina xix
... evolutionary history , yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed , irrelevant oddity while seeing themselves as stepping- stones to the Almighty . To an evolutionist this cannot be so . There exists no objective basis on ...
... evolutionary history , yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed , irrelevant oddity while seeing themselves as stepping- stones to the Almighty . To an evolutionist this cannot be so . There exists no objective basis on ...
Pagina 2
... evolutionary sense . This brings me to the first point I want to make about what this book is not . I am not advocating a morality based on evolution . * I am saying how things have evolved . I am not saying how we humans morally ought ...
... evolutionary sense . This brings me to the first point I want to make about what this book is not . I am not advocating a morality based on evolution . * I am saying how things have evolved . I am not saying how we humans morally ought ...
Pagina 7
... evolutionary theory , brought out into the open in a famous book by V. C. Wynne - Edwards , and popularized by Robert Ardrey in The Social Contract . The orthodox alternative is normally called ' individual selection ' , although I per ...
... evolutionary theory , brought out into the open in a famous book by V. C. Wynne - Edwards , and popularized by Robert Ardrey in The Social Contract . The orthodox alternative is normally called ' individual selection ' , although I per ...
Pagina 10
... evolutionary biology . The muddle in human ethics over the level at which altruism is desirable - family , nation , race , species , or all living things — is mirrored by a parallel muddle in biology over the level at which altruism is ...
... evolutionary biology . The muddle in human ethics over the level at which altruism is desirable - family , nation , race , species , or all living things — is mirrored by a parallel muddle in biology over the level at which altruism is ...
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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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