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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more to say about liars and cheaters and exploiters in following chapters. In a
world where other individuals are constantly on the alert for opportunities to
exploit kin-selected altruism, and use it for their own ends, a survival machine
has to ...
more to say about liars and cheaters and exploiters in following chapters. In a
world where other individuals are constantly on the alert for opportunities to
exploit kin-selected altruism, and use it for their own ends, a survival machine
has to ...
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As we saw in Chapter 5, they tend to submit without a struggle to individuals who
they 'know' are likely to beat them anyway. As a result a naturalist is able to
describe a dominance hierarchy or 'peck order' (so called because it was first ...
As we saw in Chapter 5, they tend to submit without a struggle to individuals who
they 'know' are likely to beat them anyway. As a result a naturalist is able to
describe a dominance hierarchy or 'peck order' (so called because it was first ...
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In the course of this I will return to the remaining examples of apparently altruistic
behaviour which I gave in Chapter I, and which I promised to explain. This will
lead into a consideration of the social insects, without which no account of animal
...
In the course of this I will return to the remaining examples of apparently altruistic
behaviour which I gave in Chapter I, and which I promised to explain. This will
lead into a consideration of the social insects, without which no account of animal
...
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