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 xii
... particular paragraph goes on to make it explicit by a quick change to gene - level personification : That is to say , a gene that gives the instruction ' Body , if you are very much smaller than your litter - mates , give up the ...
... particular paragraph goes on to make it explicit by a quick change to gene - level personification : That is to say , a gene that gives the instruction ' Body , if you are very much smaller than your litter - mates , give up the ...
Pagina xviii
... particular sections . Thomas Webster , Hilary McGlynn and others at Oxford University Press cheerfully tolerated my whims and procrastinations . RICHARD DAWKINS 1989 FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION The chimpanzee and the human xviii ...
... particular sections . Thomas Webster , Hilary McGlynn and others at Oxford University Press cheerfully tolerated my whims and procrastinations . RICHARD DAWKINS 1989 FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION The chimpanzee and the human xviii ...
Pagina xxiii
... particular chapters , or otherwise gave expert advice , were John Maynard Smith , Desmond Morris , Tom Maschler , Nick Blurton Jones , Sarah Kettlewell , Nick Humphrey , Tim Clutton - Brock , Louise Johnson , Christopher Graham , Geoff ...
... particular chapters , or otherwise gave expert advice , were John Maynard Smith , Desmond Morris , Tom Maschler , Nick Blurton Jones , Sarah Kettlewell , Nick Humphrey , Tim Clutton - Brock , Louise Johnson , Christopher Graham , Geoff ...
Pagina 1
... particular issue . My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism . Apart from its academic interest , the human importance of this subject is obvious . It touches every aspect of our social lives , our loving and ...
... particular issue . My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism . Apart from its academic interest , the human importance of this subject is obvious . It touches every aspect of our social lives , our loving and ...
Pagina 3
... study the rule . The third thing this book is not is a descriptive account of the detailed behaviour of man or of any other particular animal species . I shall use factual details only as illustrative examples . I Why are people ? 3.
... study the rule . The third thing this book is not is a descriptive account of the detailed behaviour of man or of any other particular animal species . I shall use factual details only as illustrative examples . I Why are people ? 3.
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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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