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 viii
... organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid ... Organism ? The Selfish Ecosystem ? Most of these could be argued , and most have been uncritically assumed by one or ...
... organisms to behave altruistically ' for the good of the species ' . They might limit their birth rates to avoid ... Organism ? The Selfish Ecosystem ? Most of these could be argued , and most have been uncritically assumed by one or ...
Pagina ix
... organism as rival units of natural selection ( a dispute that exercised the late Ernst Mayr to the end ) is resolved . There are two kinds of unit of natural selection , and there is no dispute between them . The gene is the unit in the ...
... organism as rival units of natural selection ( a dispute that exercised the late Ernst Mayr to the end ) is resolved . There are two kinds of unit of natural selection , and there is no dispute between them . The gene is the unit in the ...
Pagina x
... organisms . Personification of genes really ought not to be a problem , because no sane person thinks DNA molecules have conscious personalities , and no sensible reader would impute such a delusion to an author . I once had the honour ...
... organisms . Personification of genes really ought not to be a problem , because no sane person thinks DNA molecules have conscious personalities , and no sensible reader would impute such a delusion to an author . I once had the honour ...
Pagina xi
... organism could be more problematical . This is be- cause organisms , unlike genes , have brains and therefore really might have selfish or altruistic motives in something like the subjective sense we would recognize . A book called The ...
... organism could be more problematical . This is be- cause organisms , unlike genes , have brains and therefore really might have selfish or altruistic motives in something like the subjective sense we would recognize . A book called The ...
Pagina xv
... organism , it takes a gene's - eye view of nature . It is a different way of seeing , not a different theory . In the opening pages of The Extended Phenotype I explained this using the metaphor of the Necker cube . O This is a two ...
... organism , it takes a gene's - eye view of nature . It is a different way of seeing , not a different theory . In the opening pages of The Extended Phenotype I explained this using the metaphor of the Necker cube . O This is a two ...
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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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