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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... happen by definition . From this , of course , it does not follow that you can explain the existence of entities as complex as man by exactly the same principles on their own . It is no good taking the The replicators 13.
... happen by definition . From this , of course , it does not follow that you can explain the existence of entities as complex as man by exactly the same principles on their own . It is no good taking the The replicators 13.
Pagina 14
... happen to fall into the right pattern , and out drops Adam ! You may make a molecule consisting of a few dozen atoms like that , but a man consists of over a thousand million million million million atoms . To try to make a man , you ...
... happen to fall into the right pattern , and out drops Adam ! You may make a molecule consisting of a few dozen atoms like that , but a man consists of over a thousand million million million million atoms . To try to make a man , you ...
Pagina 15
... 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 . That is why you will never win a big prize on the football pools . But ...
... 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 . That is why you will never win a big prize on the football pools . But ...
Pagina 16
... happen . I hope there are no misprints in this book , but if you look carefully you may find one or two . They will probably not seriously distort the meaning of the sentences , because they will be ' first generation ' errors . But ...
... happen . I hope there are no misprints in this book , but if you look carefully you may find one or two . They will probably not seriously distort the meaning of the sentences , because they will be ' first generation ' errors . But ...
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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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