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
... species ? If so , we might expect individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid overpopulation , or restrain their hunting behaviour to conserve the species ...
... species ? If so , we might expect individual organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid overpopulation , or restrain their hunting behaviour to conserve the species ...
Pagina ix
... species . Those other genes are part of the environment in which each gene survives , in the same way as the weather , predators and prey , supporting vegetation and soil bacteria are parts of the environment . From each gene's point of ...
... species . Those other genes are part of the environment in which each gene survives , in the same way as the weather , predators and prey , supporting vegetation and soil bacteria are parts of the environment . From each gene's point of ...
Pagina xix
... species above another . Chimp and human , lizard and fungus , we have all evolved over some three billion years by a process known as natural selection . Within each species some individuals leave more surviving offspring than others ...
... species above another . Chimp and human , lizard and fungus , we have all evolved over some three billion years by a process known as natural selection . Within each species some individuals leave more surviving offspring than others ...
Pagina 2
... species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) . It is ironic that Ashley Montagu should criticize Lorenz as a ' direct descendant of the " nature red in tooth and claw " thinkers of the nineteenth ...
... species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) . It is ironic that Ashley Montagu should criticize Lorenz as a ' direct descendant of the " nature red in tooth and claw " thinkers of the nineteenth ...
Pagina 3
... species has ever aspired to . As a corollary to these remarks about teaching , it is a fallacy— incidentally a very common one - to suppose that genetically inherited traits are by definition fixed and unmodifiable . Our genes may ...
... species has ever aspired to . As a corollary to these remarks about teaching , it is a fallacy— incidentally a very common one - to suppose that genetically inherited traits are by definition fixed and unmodifiable . Our genes may ...
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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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