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 121
... territory . The phenomenon is very widespread in the animal kingdom , not only in birds , mammals , and fish , but in insects and even sea - anemones . The territory may be a large area of wood- land which is the principle foraging ...
... territory . The phenomenon is very widespread in the animal kingdom , not only in birds , mammals , and fish , but in insects and even sea - anemones . The territory may be a large area of wood- land which is the principle foraging ...
Pagina 122
... territory rather than to him personally . If the population gets too big , some individuals will not get territories , and therefore will not breed . Winning a territory is therefore , to Wynne - Edwards , like winning a ticket or ...
... territory rather than to him personally . If the population gets too big , some individuals will not get territories , and therefore will not breed . Winning a territory is therefore , to Wynne - Edwards , like winning a ticket or ...
Pagina 127
... territories , and by the end of the season they have mostly starved to death . Only territory owners breed . That non- territory owners are physically capable of breeding is shown by the fact that if a territory owner is shot his place ...
... territories , and by the end of the season they have mostly starved to death . Only territory owners breed . That non- territory owners are physically capable of breeding is shown by the fact that if a territory owner is shot his place ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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