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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... suppose intuitively that the runt himself should go on struggling to the last , but the 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 ...
... suppose intuitively that the runt himself should go on struggling to the last , but the 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 ...
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... suppose that genetically inherited traits are by definition fixed and unmodifiable . Our genes may instruct us to be selfish , but we are not necessarily compelled to obey them all our lives . It may just be more difficult to learn ...
... suppose that genetically inherited traits are by definition fixed and unmodifiable . Our genes may instruct us to be selfish , but we are not necessarily compelled to obey them all our lives . It may just be more difficult to learn ...
Pagina 15
... suppose that each building block has an affinity for its own kind . Then whenever a building block from out in the soup lands up next to a part of the replicator for which it has an affinity , it will tend to stick there . The building ...
... suppose that each building block has an affinity for its own kind . Then whenever a building block from out in the soup lands up next to a part of the replicator for which it has an affinity , it will tend to stick there . The building ...
Pagina 16
... suppose the scholars of the Septuagint could at least be said to have started something big when they mistranslated the Hebrew word for ' young woman ' into the Greek word for ' virgin ' , coming up with the prophecy : ' Behold a virgin ...
... suppose the scholars of the Septuagint could at least be said to have started something big when they mistranslated the Hebrew word for ' young woman ' into the Greek word for ' virgin ' , coming up with the prophecy : ' Behold a virgin ...
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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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