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 vii
... tend to go back to his first book : having read The Selfish Gene , surely they'll work their way through to the latest and ( to its fond parent ) favourite baby ? I would mind more if I could claim that The Selfish Gene had be- come ...
... tend to go back to his first book : having read The Selfish Gene , surely they'll work their way through to the latest and ( to its fond parent ) favourite baby ? I would mind more if I could claim that The Selfish Gene had be- come ...
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... tends to favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are some genes that do no such thing and work against the interests of the rest of the genome . Some authors have called them outlaw genes , others ultra ...
... tends to favour cooperation among genes , it has to be admitted that there are some genes that do no such thing and work against the interests of the rest of the genome . Some authors have called them outlaw genes , others ultra ...
Pagina 4
... tend to make the altruist more likely ( however slightly ) to die , and the recipient more likely to survive . It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise . Once again , I do ...
... tend to make the altruist more likely ( however slightly ) to die , and the recipient more likely to survive . It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise . Once again , I do ...
Pagina 8
... tend to inherit his selfish traits . After several generations of this natural selection , the ' altruistic group ' will be over - run by selfish individuals , and will be indistinguishable from the selfish group . Even if we grant the ...
... tend to inherit his selfish traits . After several generations of this natural selection , the ' altruistic group ' will be over - run by selfish individuals , and will be indistinguishable from the selfish group . Even if we grant the ...
Pagina 12
... tend to be spherical because this is a stable configuration for thin films filled with gas . In a spacecraft , water is also stable in spherical globules , but on earth , where there is gravity , the stable surface for standing water is ...
... tend to be spherical because this is a stable configuration for thin films filled with gas . In a spacecraft , water is also stable in spherical globules , but on earth , where there is gravity , the stable surface for standing water is ...
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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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