The Selfish GeneAs 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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Rowing fast corresponds to building a body which is successful at surviving. The
wind is the external environment. The pool of alternative candidates is the gene
pool. As far as the survival of any one body is concerned, all its genes are in the ...
Rowing fast corresponds to building a body which is successful at surviving. The
wind is the external environment. The pool of alternative candidates is the gene
pool. As far as the survival of any one body is concerned, all its genes are in the ...
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Genes in juvenile bodies will be selected for their ability to outsmart parental
bodies; genes in parental bodies will be ... There is no paradox in the fact that the
very same genes successively occupy a juvenile body and a parental body.
Genes ...
Genes in juvenile bodies will be selected for their ability to outsmart parental
bodies; genes in parental bodies will be ... There is no paradox in the fact that the
very same genes successively occupy a juvenile body and a parental body.
Genes ...
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gene will spend approximately half its time sitting in male bodies, and the other
half sitting in female bodies. ... In whichever of the two sorts of body it finds itself,
we can expect a gene to make the best use of the opportunities offered by that
sort ...
gene will spend approximately half its time sitting in male bodies, and the other
half sitting in female bodies. ... In whichever of the two sorts of body it finds itself,
we can expect a gene to make the best use of the opportunities offered by that
sort ...
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