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
... selfish ' and you will think the book is about selfishness , whereas , if anything , it devotes more attention to altruism . The cor- rect word of the title to stress is ' gene ' and let me explain why . A central debate within ...
... selfish ' and you will think the book is about selfishness , whereas , if anything , it devotes more attention to altruism . The cor- rect word of the title to stress is ' gene ' and let me explain why . A central debate within ...
Pagina xi
... theory . Personification of this kind is not just a quaint didactic device . It can also help a professional scientist ... Selfish Gene ) Hamilton wrote : A gene is being favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas ...
... theory . Personification of this kind is not just a quaint didactic device . It can also help a professional scientist ... Selfish Gene ) Hamilton wrote : A gene is being favoured in natural selection if the aggregate of its rep- licas ...
Pagina xii
... theory does not nec- essarily predict this . As soon as a runt becomes so small and weak that his expectation of life is reduced to the point where benefit to him duc to parental investment is less than half the benefit that the same ...
... theory does not nec- essarily predict this . As soon as a runt becomes so small and weak that his expectation of life is reduced to the point where benefit to him duc to parental investment is less than half the benefit that the same ...
Pagina xiv
... selfish genery they have been struggling to convey to us . The coincidence of fashionable theory with political events is messi- er than that . I do believe though , that when the history of the move to the right of the late 1970s comes ...
... selfish genery they have been struggling to convey to us . The coincidence of fashionable theory with political events is messi- er than that . I do believe though , that when the history of the move to the right of the late 1970s comes ...
Pagina xv
... Selfish Gene was published its central message has become textbook orthodoxy . This is paradoxical , but not in the ... gene theory is Darwin's theory , expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness , I should like to ...
... Selfish Gene was published its central message has become textbook orthodoxy . This is paradoxical , but not in the ... gene theory is Darwin's theory , expressed in a way that Darwin did not choose but whose aptness , I should like to ...
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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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