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
... fact that we can do so is made obvious by our use of contraceptives . The same principle can and should work on a wider scale . Unlike the Second Edition of 1989 , this Anniversary Edition adds no new material except this Introduction ...
... fact that we can do so is made obvious by our use of contraceptives . The same principle can and should work on a wider scale . Unlike the Second Edition of 1989 , this Anniversary Edition adds no new material except this Introduction ...
Pagina xv
... fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo - Darwinism , but expressed as a novel image . Rather than focus on the individual organism , it takes a gene's - eye view of nature . It is a different way of seeing , not a different theory ...
... fact a logical outgrowth of orthodox neo - Darwinism , but expressed as a novel image . Rather than focus on the individual organism , it takes a gene's - eye view of nature . It is a different way of seeing , not a different theory ...
Pagina xvi
... fact , often the most important contribution a scientist can make is to discover a new way of seeing old theories or facts . The Necker cube model is misleading because it suggests that the two ways of seeing are equally good . To be ...
... fact , often the most important contribution a scientist can make is to discover a new way of seeing old theories or facts . The Necker cube model is misleading because it suggests that the two ways of seeing are equally good . To be ...
Pagina xvii
... 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 ... fact : there are influential Preface to second edition xvii.
... 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 ... fact : there are influential Preface to second edition xvii.
Pagina xviii
30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. I recently learned a disagreeable fact : there are influential sci- entists in the habit of putting their names to publications in whose composition they have played no part . Apparently some ...
30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. I recently learned a disagreeable fact : there are influential sci- entists in the habit of putting their names to publications in whose composition they have played no part . Apparently 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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