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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Pagina 76
... for wasting time . On average , any one individual dove can expect to win half his con- tests and lose half . Therefore his average pay - off per contest is the average of +40 and -10 , which is +15 . Therefore , every individual dove ...
... for wasting time . On average , any one individual dove can expect to win half his con- tests and lose half . Therefore his average pay - off per contest is the average of +40 and -10 , which is +15 . Therefore , every individual dove ...
Pagina 77
... average pay - off for hawks is exactly equal to the average pay - off for doves . Therefore selection does not favour either one of them over the other . If the number of hawks in the population started to drift upwards so that the ...
... average pay - off for hawks is exactly equal to the average pay - off for doves . Therefore selection does not favour either one of them over the other . If the number of hawks in the population started to drift upwards so that the ...
Pagina 199
Richard Dawkins. grooms . The average pay - off for a sucker among suckers is there- fore positive . They all do quite nicely in fact , and the word sucker seems inappropriate . But now suppose a cheat arises in the population . Being ...
Richard Dawkins. grooms . The average pay - off for a sucker among suckers is there- fore positive . They all do quite nicely in fact , and the word sucker seems inappropriate . But now suppose a cheat arises in the population . Being ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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