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 i
... parents , he was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel - prizewinning ethologist Niko Tin- bergen . From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley , returning as University ...
... parents , he was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel - prizewinning ethologist Niko Tin- bergen . From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley , returning as University ...
Pagina vii
... parent ) favourite baby ? I would mind more if I could claim that The Selfish Gene had be- come severely outmoded and superseded . Unfortunately ( from one point of view ) I cannot . Details have changed and factual examples burgeoned ...
... parent ) favourite baby ? I would mind more if I could claim that The Selfish Gene had be- come severely outmoded and superseded . Unfortunately ( from one point of view ) I cannot . Details have changed and factual examples burgeoned ...
Pagina xii
... parental investment is less than half the benefit that the same invest- ment could potentially confer on the other ... parents . I really believe that these two levels of personification are not confus- ing if read in context and in ...
... parental investment is less than half the benefit that the same invest- ment could potentially confer on the other ... parents . I really believe that these two levels of personification are not confus- ing if read in context and in ...
Pagina xix
... parent - offspring relations and the evolution of the social insects ) , sex ratio theory , reciprocal altruism , deceit , and the natural selection of sex differences . With a confidence that comes from mastering the underlying theory ...
... parent - offspring relations and the evolution of the social insects ) , sex ratio theory , reciprocal altruism , deceit , and the natural selection of sex differences . With a confidence that comes from mastering the underlying theory ...
Pagina xx
... parents to dominate their offspring ( or vice versa ) . And the concepts of parental investment and female choice provide an objective and unbiased basis for viewing sex differences , a considerable advance over popular efforts to root ...
... parents to dominate their offspring ( or vice versa ) . And the concepts of parental investment and female choice provide an objective and unbiased basis for viewing sex differences , a considerable advance over popular efforts to root ...
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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