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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Similarly, the story of the replicator molecules probably happened something like
the way I am telling it, regardless of whether we choose to call them “living'.
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that
words ...
Similarly, the story of the replicator molecules probably happened something like
the way I am telling it, regardless of whether we choose to call them “living'.
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that
words ...
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Like the chess programmer, the genes have to “instruct' their survival machines
not in specifics, but in the general strategies and tricks of the living trade. As J. Z.
Young has pointed out, the genes have to perform a task analogous to prediction.
Like the chess programmer, the genes have to “instruct' their survival machines
not in specifics, but in the general strategies and tricks of the living trade. As J. Z.
Young has pointed out, the genes have to perform a task analogous to prediction.
Pagina 179
One of these is the propensity which so many animals have for living in groups.
Birds flock, insects swarm, fish and whales school, plainsdwelling mammals herd
together or hunt in packs. These aggregations usually consist of members of a ...
One of these is the propensity which so many animals have for living in groups.
Birds flock, insects swarm, fish and whales school, plainsdwelling mammals herd
together or hunt in packs. These aggregations usually consist of members of a ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? | 1 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
The gene machine | 49 |
Copyright | |
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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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