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 13
... existence . I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary , beginning with the time before evolution itself began . Darwin's ' survival of the fittest ' is really a special case of a more general law of ...
... existence . I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary , beginning with the time before evolution itself began . Darwin's ' survival of the fittest ' is really a special case of a more general law of ...
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... existence of entities as complex as man by exactly the same prin- ciples on their own . It is no good taking the right number of atoms and shaking them together with some external energy till they happen to fall into the right pattern ...
... existence of entities as complex as man by exactly the same prin- ciples on their own . It is no good taking the right number of atoms and shaking them together with some external energy till they happen to fall into the right pattern ...
Pagina 47
... existence of crossing - over . And if sexual , as opposed to non - sexual , reproduction benefits a gene for sexual reproduction , that is a sufficient explanation for the existence of sexual reproduction . Whether or not it benefits ...
... existence of crossing - over . And if sexual , as opposed to non - sexual , reproduction benefits a gene for sexual reproduction , that is a sufficient explanation for the existence of sexual reproduction . Whether or not it benefits ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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