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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... example to example . The largest practical unit of natural selection - the gene - will usually be found to lie somewhere on the scale between cistron and chromosome . It is its potential immortality that makes a gene a good can- didate ...
... example to example . The largest practical unit of natural selection - the gene - will usually be found to lie somewhere on the scale between cistron and chromosome . It is its potential immortality that makes a gene a good can- didate ...
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... examples of the working in nature of the kin - selection principle . The critics are of course familiar with the widespread existence of parental care , but they fail to understand that parental care is no less an example of kin ...
... examples of the working in nature of the kin - selection principle . The critics are of course familiar with the widespread existence of parental care , but they fail to understand that parental care is no less an example of kin ...
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... example , the habit of celib- acy is presumably not inherited genetically . A gene for celibacy is doomed to failure in the gene pool , except under very special circumstances such as we find in the social insects . But still , a meme ...
... example , the habit of celib- acy is presumably not inherited genetically . A gene for celibacy is doomed to failure in the gene pool , except under very special circumstances such as we find in the social insects . But still , a meme ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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