The Selfish GeneThis nontechnical description of modern genetics is based on the insight that replicating structures have a built-in drive for self-preservation. A fascinating and provocative popular account. |
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“foster' nests, and then leave the unwitting foster-parents, of a quite different
species, to rear the cuckoo young. Therefore a baby cuckoo has no genetic stake
in his foster brothers and sisters. (Some species of baby cuckoo will not have any
...
“foster' nests, and then leave the unwitting foster-parents, of a quite different
species, to rear the cuckoo young. Therefore a baby cuckoo has no genetic stake
in his foster brothers and sisters. (Some species of baby cuckoo will not have any
...
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But here the selective influence of predation would be, if anything, in the direction
of making the cries quieter. In the hypothetical case of the cuckoos, the net
influence of predators, paradoxical as it sounds at first, could be to make the cries
...
But here the selective influence of predation would be, if anything, in the direction
of making the cries quieter. In the hypothetical case of the cuckoos, the net
influence of predators, paradoxical as it sounds at first, could be to make the cries
...
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was a baby cuckoo, threw the egg-out. They replaced the egg again, and exactly
the same thing happened. The baby swallow used the cuckoo method of
balancing the egg on its back between its wing-stubs, and walking backwards up
the ...
was a baby cuckoo, threw the egg-out. They replaced the egg again, and exactly
the same thing happened. The baby swallow used the cuckoo method of
balancing the egg on its back between its wing-stubs, and walking backwards up
the ...
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Why are people? | 1 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
The gene machine | 49 |
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advantage allele altruism altruistic behaviour ancestors animals ants argument average pay-off baby bees behave benefit birds body brain brothers and sisters chance chapter cheats child chromosome cistron complex copies copulate cost crossing-over cuckoo Darwin doves eggs evolution evolutionarily stable strategy evolutionary evolve example expect exploit fact father favour female fights gene pool genetic unit grudgers happen hawk hawks and doves human idea individual individual’s kin selection kind large number less living look male mate means meme meme pool molecules mother natural selection nest offspring paradoxical parental investment particular pattern population possible predators predict primeval soup queen rearing reason reciprocal altruism relatedness replicators reproduction risk rival selfish gene theory sense sex ratio sexual share simple simulation social insects soup species sperms suckers suppose survival machines tend territory things tion Trivers W. D. Hamilton workers Wynne-Edwards young
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Selfish Gene Oxford Paperbacks |
| Auteur | Richard Dawkins |
| Editie | herdruk |
| Uitgever | Oxford University Press, 1978 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 6 feb 2015 |
| ISBN | 0195200004, 9780195200003 |
| Lengte | 224 pagina's |
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