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 63
... brain is an actual spatial model of the events you are imagining . But , just as in the computer , the details of how your brain represents its model of the world are less important than the fact that it is able to use it to predict ...
... brain is an actual spatial model of the events you are imagining . But , just as in the computer , the details of how your brain represents its model of the world are less important than the fact that it is able to use it to predict ...
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... brains , and brains are shaped by natural selection of genes in gene - pools . They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . I have a lot of sympathy with this attitude , and I do not doubt that ...
... brains , and brains are shaped by natural selection of genes in gene - pools . They want to find some way in which having a brain like that improves gene survival . I have a lot of sympathy with this attitude , and I do not doubt that ...
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... brains . Time is possibly a more important limiting factor than storage space , and it is the subject of heavy competi ... brain , it must do so at the expense of ' rival ' memes . Other commodities for which memes compete are radio and ...
... brains . Time is possibly a more important limiting factor than storage space , and it is the subject of heavy competi ... brain , it must do so at the expense of ' rival ' memes . Other commodities for which memes compete are radio and ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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