The Selfish GeneOxford University Press, 1976 - 224 pagina's As 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 65
... bees is quite a complicated business for various reasons . Worker bees themselves do not ordinarily reproduce , and so you have to cross a queen of one strain with a drone ( = male ) of the other , and then look at the behaviour of the ...
... bees is quite a complicated business for various reasons . Worker bees themselves do not ordinarily reproduce , and so you have to cross a queen of one strain with a drone ( = male ) of the other , and then look at the behaviour of the ...
Pagina 66
... bees possessing the gene end up by uncapping , and bees not possess- ing the gene do not uncap . Secondly it illustrates the fact that genes ' cooperate ' in their effects on the behaviour of the communal survival machine . The throwing ...
... bees possessing the gene end up by uncapping , and bees not possess- ing the gene do not uncap . Secondly it illustrates the fact that genes ' cooperate ' in their effects on the behaviour of the communal survival machine . The throwing ...
Pagina 185
... bees , or termites achieves a kind of individuality at a higher level . Food is shared to such an extent that one may speak of a communal stomach . Information is shared so efficiently by chemical signals and by the famous ' dance ' of ...
... bees , or termites achieves a kind of individuality at a higher level . Food is shared to such an extent that one may speak of a communal stomach . Information is shared so efficiently by chemical signals and by the famous ' dance ' of ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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