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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... soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some three to four thousand million years ago ... soup surrounding the replicator . Now suppose that each building block has an affinity for its own kind . Then whenever a ...
... soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some three to four thousand million years ago ... soup surrounding the replicator . Now suppose that each building block has an affinity for its own kind . Then whenever a ...
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... soup . A third charac- teristic of replicator molecules which would have been positively selected is accuracy of replication . If molecules of type X and type Y last the same length of time and replicate at the same rate , but X makes a ...
... soup . A third charac- teristic of replicator molecules which would have been positively selected is accuracy of replication . If molecules of type X and type Y last the same length of time and replicate at the same rate , but X makes a ...
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... soup did for the original ones . Sex and chromosomal crossing - over have the effect of preserving the liquidity of the modern equivalent of the soup . Because of sex and crossing - over the gene pool is kept well stirred , and the ...
... soup did for the original ones . Sex and chromosomal crossing - over have the effect of preserving the liquidity of the modern equivalent of the soup . Because of sex and crossing - over the gene pool is kept well stirred , and the ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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