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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Pagina 74
This has long been realized by ethologists in a vague sort of way, but it has taken
J. Maynard Smith, not normally regarded as an ethologist, to express the idea
forcefully and clearly. In collaboration with G. R. Price and G. A. Parker, he uses ...
This has long been realized by ethologists in a vague sort of way, but it has taken
J. Maynard Smith, not normally regarded as an ethologist, to express the idea
forcefully and clearly. In collaboration with G. R. Price and G. A. Parker, he uses ...
Pagina 196
This is one of those revolutionary ideas which it takes time to get used to, but it is
an idea whose time has come. I speculate that we shall come to accept the more
radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic ...
This is one of those revolutionary ideas which it takes time to get used to, but it is
an idea whose time has come. I speculate that we shall come to accept the more
radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic ...
Pagina 206
Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of
making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the
gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes
propagate ...
Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of
making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the
gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes
propagate ...
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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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