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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... biologists , gently and expertly debunks some of the favourite illusions of social biology about the evolution of altruism . It is a most skilful reformulation of the central problems of social biology in terms of the genetical theory ...
... biologists , gently and expertly debunks some of the favourite illusions of social biology about the evolution of altruism . It is a most skilful reformulation of the central problems of social biology in terms of the genetical theory ...
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... biologists do not recognize it , and will disagree with me . Fortunately for what journalists would call the ' credibility ' of the rest of this book , the disagreement is largely academic . Just as it is not convenient to talk about ...
... biologists do not recognize it , and will disagree with me . Fortunately for what journalists would call the ' credibility ' of the rest of this book , the disagreement is largely academic . Just as it is not convenient to talk about ...
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... biologists nowadays believe in Darwin's theory , we do not mean that every biologist has , graven in his brain , an identical copy of the exact words of Charles Darwin himself . Each individual has his own way of interpreting Darwin's ...
... biologists nowadays believe in Darwin's theory , we do not mean that every biologist has , graven in his brain , an identical copy of the exact words of Charles Darwin himself . Each individual has his own way of interpreting Darwin's ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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