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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Pagina 65
... half way . This last group uncapped the wax cells of diseased grubs , but they did not follow through and throw out the larvae . Rothenbuhler surmised that there might be two separate genes , one gene for uncapping , and one gene for ...
... half way . This last group uncapped the wax cells of diseased grubs , but they did not follow through and throw out the larvae . Rothenbuhler surmised that there might be two separate genes , one gene for uncapping , and one gene for ...
Pagina 76
... half his fights and lose half his fights . His average expected pay - off per fight is therefore half - way between +50 and - 100 , which is -25 . Now consider a single dove in a population of hawks . To be sure , he loses all his ...
... half his fights and lose half his fights . His average expected pay - off per fight is therefore half - way between +50 and - 100 , which is -25 . Now consider a single dove in a population of hawks . To be sure , he loses all his ...
Pagina 98
... half your sex cells contain H , and any particular child was made from one of those sex cells . If you have one copy of gene 7 , the chance that your father also had 7 is 50 per cent , because you received half your genes from him , and ...
... half your sex cells contain H , and any particular child was made from one of those sex cells . If you have one copy of gene 7 , the chance that your father also had 7 is 50 per cent , because you received half your genes from him , and ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
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Immortal coils | 22 |
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