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
... tion that I should , in the fullness of time , do the same . Let me begin with some second thoughts about the title . In 1975 , through the mediation of my friend Desmond Morris I showed the partially completed book to Tom Maschler ...
... tion that I should , in the fullness of time , do the same . Let me begin with some second thoughts about the title . In 1975 , through the mediation of my friend Desmond Morris I showed the partially completed book to Tom Maschler ...
Pagina xix
... tion : the non - random differential reproduction of genes . Natural selection has built us , and it is natural selection we must understand if we are to comprehend our own identities . Although Darwin's theory of evolution through ...
... tion : the non - random differential reproduction of genes . Natural selection has built us , and it is natural selection we must understand if we are to comprehend our own identities . Although Darwin's theory of evolution through ...
Pagina xx
... tion , rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to be- tray by the subtle signs of self - knowledge the deception being practiced . Thus , the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ...
... tion , rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to be- tray by the subtle signs of self - knowledge the deception being practiced . Thus , the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ...
Pagina 1
... tion when faced with the deep problems : Is there a meaning to life ? What are we for ? What is man ? After posing the last of these questions , the eminent zoologist G. G. Simpson put it thus : " The point I want to make now is that ...
... tion when faced with the deep problems : Is there a meaning to life ? What are we for ? What is man ? After posing the last of these questions , the eminent zoologist G. G. Simpson put it thus : " The point I want to make now is that ...
Pagina 12
... tion - rocks , galaxies , ocean waves — are all , to a greater or lesser extent , stable patterns of atoms . Soap bubbles tend to be spherical because this is a stable configuration for thin films filled with gas . In a spacecraft ...
... tion - rocks , galaxies , ocean waves — are all , to a greater or lesser extent , stable patterns of atoms . Soap bubbles tend to be spherical because this is a stable configuration for thin films filled with gas . In a spacecraft ...
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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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