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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A more complex possibility is that each building block has affinity not for its own
kind, but reciprocally for one particular other kind. Then the replicator would act
as a template not for an identical copy, but for a kind of “negative', which would in
...
A more complex possibility is that each building block has affinity not for its own
kind, but reciprocally for one particular other kind. Then the replicator would act
as a template not for an identical copy, but for a kind of “negative', which would in
...
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Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in particular, the
replicators which they bear, the genes, are basically the same kind of molecule in
all of us—from bacteria to elephants. We are all survival machines for the same ...
Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in particular, the
replicators which they bear, the genes, are basically the same kind of molecule in
all of us—from bacteria to elephants. We are all survival machines for the same ...
Pagina 33
Another rare kind of mistake or mutation which has important long-term
consequences is called inversion. A piece of chromosome detaches itself at both
ends, turns head over heels, and reattaches itself in the inverted position. In
terms of the ...
Another rare kind of mistake or mutation which has important long-term
consequences is called inversion. A piece of chromosome detaches itself at both
ends, turns head over heels, and reattaches itself in the inverted position. In
terms of the ...
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Why are people? | 1 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
The gene machine | 49 |
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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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