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 xiv
... Trivers . I have men- tioned Bill Hamilton as one of the four intellectual heroes of the book . Bob Trivers is another . His ideas dominate large parts of Chapters 9 , 10 and 12 , and the whole of Chapter 8. Not only is his Foreword a ...
... Trivers . I have men- tioned Bill Hamilton as one of the four intellectual heroes of the book . Bob Trivers is another . His ideas dominate large parts of Chapters 9 , 10 and 12 , and the whole of Chapter 8. Not only is his Foreword a ...
Pagina xvii
... Trivers . I now see that it was one of those mysterious periods in which new ideas are hovering in the air . I wrote The Selfish Gene in something resembling a fever of excitement . When Oxford University Press approached me for a ...
... Trivers . I now see that it was one of those mysterious periods in which new ideas are hovering in the air . I wrote The Selfish Gene in something resembling a fever of excitement . When Oxford University Press approached me for a ...
Pagina xx
... process it should also give us a deeper understanding of the many roots of our suffering . ROBERT L. TRIVERS Harvard University , July , 1976 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION THIS book should be read almost XX Foreword to the first edition.
... process it should also give us a deeper understanding of the many roots of our suffering . ROBERT L. TRIVERS Harvard University , July , 1976 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION THIS book should be read almost XX Foreword to the first edition.
Pagina xxii
... Trivers . Various people suggested titles for the book , which I have grate- fully used as chapter titles : ' Immortal Coils ' , John Krebs ; ' The Gene Machine ' , Desmond Morris ; ' Genesmanship ' , Tim Clutton - Brock and Jean ...
... Trivers . Various people suggested titles for the book , which I have grate- fully used as chapter titles : ' Immortal Coils ' , John Krebs ; ' The Gene Machine ' , Desmond Morris ; ' Genesmanship ' , Tim Clutton - Brock and Jean ...
Pagina xxiii
... Trivers . Pat Searle and Stephanie Verhoeven not only typed with skill , but encouraged me by seeming to do so with enjoyment . Finally , I wish to thank Michael Rodgers of Oxford University Press who , in addition to helpfully ...
... Trivers . Pat Searle and Stephanie Verhoeven not only typed with skill , but encouraged me by seeming to do so with enjoyment . Finally , I wish to thank Michael Rodgers of Oxford University Press who , in addition to helpfully ...
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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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