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
... individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid overpopulation , or restrain their hunting behaviour to conserve the species ' future stocks of prey . It was ...
... individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid overpopulation , or restrain their hunting behaviour to conserve the species ' future stocks of prey . It was ...
Pagina xi
... individual lioness , calculating an optimal be- havioural strategy for the long term future survival of her genes . Hamilton's first gift to biology was the precise mathematics that a truly Darwinian individual such as a lion would , in ...
... individual lioness , calculating an optimal be- havioural strategy for the long term future survival of her genes . Hamilton's first gift to biology was the precise mathematics that a truly Darwinian individual such as a lion would , in ...
Pagina xii
... individual - level introspection . The assumption is not that the runt chooses what gives him pleasure , or what feels good . Rather , individuals in a Darwinian world are assumed to be making an as - if calculation of what would be ...
... individual - level introspection . The assumption is not that the runt chooses what gives him pleasure , or what feels good . Rather , individuals in a Darwinian world are assumed to be making an as - if calculation of what would be ...
Pagina 2
... individual behaviour . However , as we shall see , there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals . ' Special ' and ...
... individual behaviour . However , as we shall see , there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals . ' Special ' and ...
Pagina 6
... individuals . This book will show how both individual selfishness and individual altruism are explained by the fundamental law that I am calling gene selfishness . But first I must deal with a particular erroneous explanation for ...
... individuals . This book will show how both individual selfishness and individual altruism are explained by the fundamental law that I am calling gene selfishness . But first I must deal with a particular erroneous explanation for ...
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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