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 1
... Living organisms had existed on earth , without ever knowing why , for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them . His name was Charles Darwin . To be fair , others had had inklings of the truth ...
... Living organisms had existed on earth , without ever knowing why , for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them . His name was Charles Darwin . To be fair , others had had inklings of the truth ...
Pagina 4
... living creatures , we shall find it to be selfish . If we find that our expectation is wrong , if we observe that human behaviour is truly altruistic , then we shall be faced with something puzzling , something that needs explaining ...
... living creatures , we shall find it to be selfish . If we find that our expectation is wrong , if we observe that human behaviour is truly altruistic , then we shall be faced with something puzzling , something that needs explaining ...
Pagina 7
... living creatures evolve to do things ' for the good of the species ' or ' for the good of the group ' . It is easy to see how this idea got its start in biology . Much of an animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the ...
... living creatures evolve to do things ' for the good of the species ' or ' for the good of the group ' . It is easy to see how this idea got its start in biology . Much of an animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the ...
Pagina 9
... living seem to be less effective than war - time appeals for individuals to lay down their lives . ) Recently there has been a reaction against racialism and patriot- ism , and a tendency to substitute the whole human species as the ...
... living seem to be less effective than war - time appeals for individuals to lay down their lives . ) Recently there has been a reaction against racialism and patriot- ism , and a tendency to substitute the whole human species as the ...
Pagina 10
... living things — is mirrored by a parallel muddle in biology over the level at which altruism is to be expected according to the theory of evolution . Even the group - selectionist would not be surprised to find members of rival groups ...
... living things — is mirrored by a parallel muddle in biology over the level at which altruism is to be expected according to the theory of evolution . Even the group - selectionist would not be surprised to find members of rival groups ...
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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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