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 xii
... Unwriting a book is one thing . Unreading it is something else . What are we to make of the following verdict , from a reader in Australia ? Fascinating , but at times I wish I could unread xii Introduction to the 30th anniversary edition.
... Unwriting a book is one thing . Unreading it is something else . What are we to make of the following verdict , from a reader in Australia ? Fascinating , but at times I wish I could unread xii Introduction to the 30th anniversary edition.
Pagina xiii
... thing to say , but the second is almost as important . As I went on to write , Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cos- mos , but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos ...
... thing to say , but the second is almost as important . As I went on to write , Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cos- mos , but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos ...
Pagina xvii
... thing I shall ever write . The title ' Nice guys finish first ' is borrowed from the BBC Horizon television programme that I presented in 1985. This was a fifty - minute documentary on game - theoretic approaches to the evolution of ...
... thing I shall ever write . The title ' Nice guys finish first ' is borrowed from the BBC Horizon television programme that I presented in 1985. This was a fifty - minute documentary on game - theoretic approaches to the evolution of ...
Pagina 2
... thing in evolution is the good of the species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) ... things have evolved . I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave . I stress this , because 2 Why are people ?
... thing in evolution is the good of the species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) ... things have evolved . I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave . I stress this , because 2 Why are people ?
Pagina 3
... thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one position or another in the nature / nurture controversy . Naturally I have an opinion on this , but I am not going to express it , except insofar as it is implicit in the view of ...
... thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one position or another in the nature / nurture controversy . Naturally I have an opinion on this , but I am not going to express it , except insofar as it is implicit in the view of ...
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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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