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 53
... less directly with muscles ; indeed , sea anemones are not far from this state today , since for their way of life ... less capacious , and enormously less sophisticated in their techniques of information- retrieval . One of the most ...
... less directly with muscles ; indeed , sea anemones are not far from this state today , since for their way of life ... less capacious , and enormously less sophisticated in their techniques of information- retrieval . One of the most ...
Pagina 129
... less dense , roost . By definition , this would indicate that the calls of starlings constituted an epideictic display . The selfish gene theory would explain it in much the same way as it handled the case of the mice . Again , we start ...
... less dense , roost . By definition , this would indicate that the calls of starlings constituted an epideictic display . The selfish gene theory would explain it in much the same way as it handled the case of the mice . Again , we start ...
Pagina 136
... less efficient at bringing up children as they got older . Therefore the life expectancy of a 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 ...
... less efficient at bringing up children as they got older . Therefore the life expectancy of a 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 ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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