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 190
... queen , who ' wants ' a 1 : 1 ratio . So what does this ' wanting ' mean ? It means that a gene which finds itself in a queen's body can propagate itself best if that body invests equally in reproductive sons and daughters . But the ...
... queen , who ' wants ' a 1 : 1 ratio . So what does this ' wanting ' mean ? It means that a gene which finds itself in a queen's body can propagate itself best if that body invests equally in reproductive sons and daughters . But the ...
Pagina 192
... queen and to the brood that they are tending . Unwittingly they are rearing new platoons of slave- makers . No doubt natural selection , acting on the genes of the slave species , tends to favour anti - slavery adaptations . However ...
... queen and to the brood that they are tending . Unwittingly they are rearing new platoons of slave- makers . No doubt natural selection , acting on the genes of the slave species , tends to favour anti - slavery adaptations . However ...
Pagina 193
... queens - something which does not appear to make sense from either the workers ' or the mother queen's point of view . Hamilton has offered a possible solution to this puzzle . He points out that when a queen bee leaves the hive she ...
... queens - something which does not appear to make sense from either the workers ' or the mother queen's point of view . Hamilton has offered a possible solution to this puzzle . He points out that when a queen bee leaves the hive she ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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