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 viii
... The Selfish Something , that something turns out to be the gene , for cogent reasons which this book argues . Whether or not you end up buying the argument itself , that is viii Introduction to the 30th anniversary edition.
... The Selfish Something , that something turns out to be the gene , for cogent reasons which this book argues . Whether or not you end up buying the argument itself , that is viii Introduction to the 30th anniversary edition.
Pagina ix
... reason why I should per- haps have gone for The Immortal Gene . The Altruistic Vehicle would have been another possibility . Perhaps it would have been too enigmatic but , at all events , the apparent dispute between the gene and the ...
... reason why I should per- haps have gone for The Immortal Gene . The Altruistic Vehicle would have been another possibility . Perhaps it would have been too enigmatic but , at all events , the apparent dispute between the gene and the ...
Pagina xvi
... reason that I prefer not to make a clear separation between science and its ' popularization ' . Expounding ideas that have hitherto appeared only in the technical literature is a difficult art . It requires insightful new twists of ...
... reason that I prefer not to make a clear separation between science and its ' popularization ' . Expounding ideas that have hitherto appeared only in the technical literature is a difficult art . It requires insightful new twists of ...
Pagina xviii
... reason for raising the matter here is to make a contrast . Helena Cronin has done so much to improve every line - every word — that she should , but for her adamant refusal , be named as joint author of all the new portions of this book ...
... reason for raising the matter here is to make a contrast . Helena Cronin has done so much to improve every line - every word — that she should , but for her adamant refusal , be named as joint author of all the new portions of this book ...
Pagina xix
... reasons for this strange development , there is evidence that it is coming to an end . The great work of Darwin and Mendel has been extended by a growing number of workers , most notably by R. A. Fisher , W. D. Hamilton , G. C. Williams ...
... reasons for this strange development , there is evidence that it is coming to an end . The great work of Darwin and Mendel has been extended by a growing number of workers , most notably by R. A. Fisher , W. D. Hamilton , G. C. Williams ...
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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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