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 60
... risk a big stake . A gambler who risks his all on a single throw stands to gain a great deal . He also stands to lose a great deal , but on average high - stake gamblers are no better and no worse off than other players who play for low ...
... risk a big stake . A gambler who risks his all on a single throw stands to gain a great deal . He also stands to lose a great deal , but on average high - stake gamblers are no better and no worse off than other players who play for low ...
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... risk to the altruist must be less than the net benefit to the recipient multiplied by the relatedness . Risks and benefits have to be calculated in the complex actuarial way I have outlined . But what a complicated calculation to expect ...
... risk to the altruist must be less than the net benefit to the recipient multiplied by the relatedness . Risks and benefits have to be calculated in the complex actuarial way I have outlined . But what a complicated calculation to expect ...
Pagina 104
... Risk to self + Benefit to brother Risk to brother + Benefit to other brother - Risk to other brother + Benefit to first cousin – cousin + Benefit to child Risk to child + etc. The result of the sum will be a number called the net ...
... Risk to self + Benefit to brother Risk to brother + Benefit to other brother - Risk to other brother + Benefit to first cousin – cousin + Benefit to child Risk to child + etc. The result of the sum will be a number called the net ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advantage alleles altruism altruistic behaviour ancestors animals ants argument average pay-off baby bees behave benefit birds body brain brothers and sisters chance chapter cheats child chromosome cistron complex copies copulate cost crossing-over cuckoo Darwin doves eggs evolution evolutionarily stable strategy evolutionary evolve example expect exploit father favour female fights gene pool genetic unit grudgers happen hawk hawks and doves human idea individual kin selection kind large number less living look male mate Maynard Smith means meme meme pool molecules mother natural selection nest offspring paradoxical parental investment particular pattern population possible predators predict primeval soup queen rearing reason reciprocal altruism relatedness replicators reproduction risk rival selfish gene theory sense sex ratio sexual share simple simulation social insects soup species sperms suckers suppose survival machines tend territory things tion Trivers W. D. Hamilton workers Wynne-Edwards young