The Selfish GeneOxford University Press, 1978 - 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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... altruism are explained by the fundamental law which I am calling gene selfishness . But first I must deal with a particular erroneous explanation for altruism , because it is widely known , and even widely taught in schools . This ...
... altruism are explained by the fundamental law which I am calling gene selfishness . But first I must deal with a particular erroneous explanation for altruism , because it is widely known , and even widely taught in schools . This ...
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... altruistic behaviour should have just as good a chance of spreading through the population as a gene for parental altruism . In practice , this is an over - simplification for various reasons which we shall come to later , and brotherly ...
... altruistic behaviour should have just as good a chance of spreading through the population as a gene for parental altruism . In practice , this is an over - simplification for various reasons which we shall come to later , and brotherly ...
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... altruism , on the other hand , would have a corresponding advantage as far as the life - expectancy terms in the equation were concerned . One sometimes hears it said that kin selection is all very well as a theory , but there are few ...
... altruism , on the other hand , would have a corresponding advantage as far as the life - expectancy terms in the equation were concerned . One sometimes hears it said that kin selection is all very well as a theory , but there are few ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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