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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... child of an old mother was less than that of a child of a young mother . This means that , if a woman had a child and a grandchild born on the same day , the grandchild could expect to live longer than the child . When a woman reached ...
... child of an old mother was less than that of a child of a young mother . This means that , if a woman had a child and a grandchild born on the same day , the grandchild could expect to live longer than the child . When a woman reached ...
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... child so that she can prepare for the next one . The present child , on the other hand , does not want to be weaned yet , because milk is a convenient , trouble - free source of food , and he does not want to have to go out and work for ...
... child so that she can prepare for the next one . The present child , on the other hand , does not want to be weaned yet , because milk is a convenient , trouble - free source of food , and he does not want to have to go out and work for ...
Pagina 141
... child goes on screaming . One trouble with this is that the child may not have been lying , and if it dies as a result of not being fed the parent would have lost some of its precious genes . Wild birds can die after being starved for ...
... child goes on screaming . One trouble with this is that the child may not have been lying , and if it dies as a result of not being fed the parent would have lost some of its precious genes . Wild birds can die after being starved for ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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