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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... genetic unit . It might be a sequence of only ten letters within one cistron ; it might be a sequence of eight cistrons ; it might start and end in mid - cistron . It will overlap with other genetic units . It will include smaller units ...
... genetic unit . It might be a sequence of only ten letters within one cistron ; it might be a sequence of eight cistrons ; it might start and end in mid - cistron . It will overlap with other genetic units . It will include smaller units ...
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... genetic unit , say half the length of the chromosome , there is a 50 per cent chance that the unit will be split at each meiosis . If the genetic unit we are considering is only I per cent of the length of the chromosome , we can assume ...
... genetic unit , say half the length of the chromosome , there is a 50 per cent chance that the unit will be split at each meiosis . If the genetic unit we are considering is only I per cent of the length of the chromosome , we can assume ...
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... inherited it intact from one of her par- ents . Eventually , if we trace the ancestry of a small genetic unit back far enough , we will come to its original creator . At some stage it must have been created for the first time inside a ...
... inherited it intact from one of her par- ents . Eventually , if we trace the ancestry of a small genetic unit back far enough , we will come to its original creator . At some stage it must have been created for the first time inside a ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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