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 ix
... rival units of natural selection ( a dispute that exercised the late Ernst Mayr to the end ) is resolved . There are two kinds of unit of natural selection , and there is no dispute between them . The gene is the unit in the sense of ...
... rival units of natural selection ( a dispute that exercised the late Ernst Mayr to the end ) is resolved . There are two kinds of unit of natural selection , and there is no dispute between them . The gene is the unit in the sense of ...
Pagina 7
... rival group whose individual members place their own selfish interests first . Therefore the world becomes populated mainly by groups consisting of self - sacrificing individuals . This is the theory of ' group selection ' , long ...
... rival group whose individual members place their own selfish interests first . Therefore the world becomes populated mainly by groups consisting of self - sacrificing individuals . This is the theory of ' group selection ' , long ...
Pagina 10
... rival groups being nasty to each other : in this way , like trade unionists or soldiers , they are favouring their own group in the struggle for limited resources . But then it is worth asking how the group- selectionist decides which ...
... rival groups being nasty to each other : in this way , like trade unionists or soldiers , they are favouring their own group in the struggle for limited resources . But then it is worth asking how the group- selectionist decides which ...
Pagina 14
... rival theories , but they all have certain features in common . The simplified account I shall give is probably not too far from the truth . * We do not know what chemical raw materials were abundant on earth before the coming of life ...
... rival theories , but they all have certain features in common . The simplified account I shall give is probably not too far from the truth . * We do not know what chemical raw materials were abundant on earth before the coming of life ...
Pagina 19
... rivals ' stability became more elaborate and more efficient . Some of them may even have ' discovered ' how to break up molecules of rival varieties chemically , and to use the building blocks so released for making their own copies ...
... rivals ' stability became more elaborate and more efficient . Some of them may even have ' discovered ' how to break up molecules of rival varieties chemically , and to use the building blocks so released for making their own copies ...
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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