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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... human nature . Others would disagree . It all depends where you stand in the debate over ' nature versus nurture ' as determinants of human attributes . This brings me to the second thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one ...
... human nature . Others would disagree . It all depends where you stand in the debate over ' nature versus nurture ' as determinants of human attributes . This brings me to the second thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one ...
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... human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selec- tion works , it seems to ...
... human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selec- tion works , it seems to ...
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... human behaviour . They have tried to look for ' biological advantages ' in various attributes of human civilization . For instance , tribal religion has been seen as a mechanism for solidifying group iden- tity , valuable for a pack ...
... human behaviour . They have tried to look for ' biological advantages ' in various attributes of human civilization . For instance , tribal religion has been seen as a mechanism for solidifying group iden- tity , valuable for a pack ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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