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 iv
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Pagina ix
... mean that groups of genes prosper at the expense of their members , or at the expense of other groups . Rather , each gene ... means the other genes in the gene pool of the species . Natural selection therefore Introduction to the 30th ...
... mean that groups of genes prosper at the expense of their members , or at the expense of other groups . Rather , each gene ... means the other genes in the gene pool of the species . Natural selection therefore Introduction to the 30th ...
Pagina xvi
... mean popularizer , and I've often suspected that his vivid metaphors did more than just help the rest of us . Didn't they also fuel his creative genius ? The gene's - eye view of Darwinism is implicit in the writings of R. A. Fisher and ...
... mean popularizer , and I've often suspected that his vivid metaphors did more than just help the rest of us . Didn't they also fuel his creative genius ? The gene's - eye view of Darwinism is implicit in the writings of R. A. Fisher and ...
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... means the differential survival of the ' fittest ' . But are we talking about the fittest individuals , the fittest races , the fittest species , or what ? For some purposes this does not greatly matter , but when we are talking about ...
... means the differential survival of the ' fittest ' . But are we talking about the fittest individuals , the fittest races , the fittest species , or what ? For some purposes this does not greatly matter , but when we are talking about ...
Pagina 18
... means by evolution when he is speaking of living creatures , and the mechanism is the same - natural selection ... mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world . Whether we call the early replicators living or ...
... means by evolution when he is speaking of living creatures , and the mechanism is the same - natural selection ... mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world . Whether we call the early replicators living or ...
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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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