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 xxi
... survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes . This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment . Though I have known it for years , I never seem to get fully used to it ...
... survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes . This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment . Though I have known it for years , I never seem to get fully used to it ...
Pagina xxii
... machinery in the known universe . Put it like that , and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else ! For ... survival machine ' , though not actually his own , might well be . But ethology has recently been invigorated by an ...
... machinery in the known universe . Put it like that , and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else ! For ... survival machine ' , though not actually his own , might well be . But ethology has recently been invigorated by an ...
Pagina 19
... survival machines for themselves to live in . The first survival machines probably consisted of nothing more than a protec- tive coat . But making a living got steadily harder as new rivals arose with better and more effective survival ...
... survival machines for themselves to live in . The first survival machines probably consisted of nothing more than a protec- tive coat . But making a living got steadily harder as new rivals arose with better and more effective survival ...
Pagina 20
... the ultimate rationale for our existence . They have come a long way , those replicators . Now they go by the name of genes , and we are their survival machines . 3 IMMORTAL COILS We are survival machines , but ' 20 The replicators.
... the ultimate rationale for our existence . They have come a long way , those replicators . Now they go by the name of genes , and we are their survival machines . 3 IMMORTAL COILS We are survival machines , but ' 20 The replicators.
Pagina 21
... survival machines on earth is very difficult to count and even the total number of species is unknown . Taking just ... survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs . An octopus is nothing like a mouse ...
... survival machines on earth is very difficult to count and even the total number of species is unknown . Taking just ... survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs . An octopus is nothing like a mouse ...
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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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