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 4
... look at the way natural selection works , it seems to follow that anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish . Therefore we must expect that when we go and look at the behaviour of baboons , humans , and all other ...
... look at the way natural selection works , it seems to follow that anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish . Therefore we must expect that when we go and look at the behaviour of baboons , humans , and all other ...
Pagina 11
... look at evolution is in terms of selection occurring at the lowest level of all . In this belief I am heavily influenced by G. C. Williams's great book Adaptation and Natural Selection . The central idea I shall make use of was ...
... look at evolution is in terms of selection occurring at the lowest level of all . In this belief I am heavily influenced by G. C. Williams's great book Adaptation and Natural Selection . The central idea I shall make use of was ...
Pagina 13
... looks rather like a dense thornbush . But unlike a real thornbush it is not a haphazard approximate pattern but a definite invariant structure , identically repeated , with not a twig nor a twist out of place , over six thousand million ...
... looks rather like a dense thornbush . But unlike a real thornbush it is not a haphazard approximate pattern but a definite invariant structure , identically repeated , with not a twig nor a twist out of place , over six thousand million ...
Pagina 16
... 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 imagine the days before printing , when books such as the Gospels ...
... 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 imagine the days before printing , when books such as the Gospels ...
Pagina 19
... look for them floating loose in the sea ; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago . Now they swarm in huge colonies , safe inside gigantic lumbering robots , * sealed off from the outside world , communicating with it by tortuous ...
... look for them floating loose in the sea ; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago . Now they swarm in huge colonies , safe inside gigantic lumbering robots , * sealed off from the outside world , communicating with it by tortuous ...
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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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