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
... favoured at other levels . Does natural selection choose between species ? If so , we might expect individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid ...
... favoured at other levels . Does natural selection choose between species ? If so , we might expect individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid ...
Pagina x
... favoured in the presence of each other . At no time does this evolution of the ' cooperative gene ' violate the ... favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are some genes that do no such thing and work ...
... favoured in the presence of each other . At no time does this evolution of the ' cooperative gene ' violate the ... favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are some genes that do no such thing and work ...
Pagina xi
... favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas forms an increasing fraction of the total gene pool . We are going to be concerned with genes supposed to affect the social behaviour of their bearers , so let us try to ...
... favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas forms an increasing fraction of the total gene pool . We are going to be concerned with genes supposed to affect the social behaviour of their bearers , so let us try to ...
Pagina 7
... favour the perpetuation of the species . Altruism towards fellow members of the species seems to follow . This line of thought can be put into vaguely Darwinian terms . Evolution works by natural selection , and natural selection means ...
... favour the perpetuation of the species . Altruism towards fellow members of the species seems to follow . This line of thought can be put into vaguely Darwinian terms . Evolution works by natural selection , and natural selection means ...
Pagina 17
... favours high copying - fidelity ? The answer is that although evolution may seem , in some vague sense , a ' good thing ' , especially since we are the product of it , nothing actually ' wants ' to evolve The replicators 17.
... favours high copying - fidelity ? The answer is that although evolution may seem , in some vague sense , a ' good thing ' , especially since we are the product of it , nothing actually ' wants ' to evolve The replicators 17.
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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