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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... eggs , and will happily sit on other gull eggs , and even crude wooden dummies if these are substituted by a human experi- menter . In nature , egg recognition is not important for gulls , because eggs do not roll far enough to reach ...
... eggs , and will happily sit on other gull eggs , and even crude wooden dummies if these are substituted by a human experi- menter . In nature , egg recognition is not important for gulls , because eggs do not roll far enough to reach ...
Pagina 111
... egg and only one egg ? That should foil the cheaters , because they would see their own eggs lying out on the rocks with nobody incubating them . That should soon bring them into line . ' Alas , it would not . Since we are postulating ...
... egg and only one egg ? That should foil the cheaters , because they would see their own eggs lying out on the rocks with nobody incubating them . That should soon bring them into line . ' Alas , it would not . Since we are postulating ...
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... eggs out of the nest . It gets underneath an egg , fitting it into a hollow in its back . Then it slowly backs up the side of the nest , balancing the egg between its wing - stubs , and topples the egg out on to the ground . It does the ...
... eggs out of the nest . It gets underneath an egg , fitting it into a hollow in its back . Then it slowly backs up the side of the nest , balancing the egg between its wing - stubs , and topples the egg out on to the ground . It does the ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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