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
... kind of entity is it that survives , or does not survive , as a consequence of natural selection . That unit will become , more or less by definition , ' selfish ' . Altruism might well be favoured at other levels . Does natural ...
... kind of entity is it that survives , or does not survive , as a consequence of natural selection . That unit will become , more or less by definition , ' selfish ' . Altruism might well be favoured at other levels . Does natural ...
Pagina xi
... kind is not just a quaint didactic device . It can also help a professional scientist to get the right answer , in the face of tricky temptations to error . Such is the case with Darwinian calcu- lations of altruism and selfishness ...
... kind is not just a quaint didactic device . It can also help a professional scientist to get the right answer , in the face of tricky temptations to error . Such is the case with Darwinian calcu- lations of altruism and selfishness ...
Pagina xvi
... kind of reason that I prefer not to make a clear separation between science and its ' popularization ' . Expounding ideas that have hitherto appeared only in the technical literature is a difficult art . It requires insightful new ...
... kind of reason that I prefer not to make a clear separation between science and its ' popularization ' . Expounding ideas that have hitherto appeared only in the technical literature is a difficult art . It requires insightful new ...
Pagina 15
... kind . Then whenever a building block from out in the soup lands up next to a part of the replicator for which it ... kind , but reciprocally for one particular other kind . Then the replicator would act as a template not for The ...
... kind . Then whenever a building block from out in the soup lands up next to a part of the replicator for which it ... kind , but reciprocally for one particular other kind . Then the replicator would act as a template not for The ...
Pagina 16
... kind of ' stability ' came into the world . Previously it is probable that no particular kind of complex molecule was very abundant in the soup , because each was dependent on building blocks happening to fall by luck into a particular ...
... kind of ' stability ' came into the world . Previously it is probable that no particular kind of complex molecule was very abundant in the soup , because each was dependent on building blocks happening to fall by luck into a particular ...
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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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