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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... reproduction . It requires only a slight over - stretching of logic to deduce that the ' function ' of reproduction is ' to ' perpetuate the species . From this it is but a further short false step to conclude that animals will in ...
... reproduction . It requires only a slight over - stretching of logic to deduce that the ' function ' of reproduction is ' to ' perpetuate the species . From this it is but a further short false step to conclude that animals will in ...
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... reproduction ? Why do our chromosomes cross over ? And why do we not live for ever ? The question of why we die of ... reproduce , they would clutter up the world to no good purpose . ' As Medawar points out , this is a circular argument ...
... reproduction ? Why do our chromosomes cross over ? And why do we not live for ever ? The question of why we die of ... reproduce , they would clutter up the world to no good purpose . ' As Medawar points out , this is a circular argument ...
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... reproduction benefits a gene for sexual reproduction , that is a sufficient explanation for the existence of sexual reproduction . Whether or not it benefits all the rest of an individual's genes is comparatively irrelevant . Seen from ...
... reproduction benefits a gene for sexual reproduction , that is a sufficient explanation for the existence of sexual reproduction . Whether or not it benefits all the rest of an individual's genes is comparatively irrelevant . Seen from ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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