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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... single gene - indeed , by our definition it now is a single gene — and it has an ' allele ' which is really another cluster . One cluster contains the cistrons concerned with mimicking species A ; the other those concerned with ...
... single gene - indeed , by our definition it now is a single gene — and it has an ' allele ' which is really another cluster . One cluster contains the cistrons concerned with mimicking species A ; the other those concerned with ...
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... single - handedly builds a leg , long or short . Building a leg is a multi - gene cooperative enterprise . Influences from the external environment too are indispensable : after all , legs are actually made of food ! But there may well ...
... single - handedly builds a leg , long or short . Building a leg is a multi - gene cooperative enterprise . Influences from the external environment too are indispensable : after all , legs are actually made of food ! But there may well ...
Pagina 95
... single physical bit of DNA . Just as in the primeval soup , it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA , distributed throughout the world . If we allow our- selves the licence of talking about genes as if they had conscious aims ...
... single physical bit of DNA . Just as in the primeval soup , it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA , distributed throughout the world . If we allow our- selves the licence of talking about genes as if they had conscious aims ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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