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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... look at the way natural selec- tion works , it seems to follow that anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish . Therefore we must expect that when we go and look at the behaviour of baboons , humans , and all ...
... look at the way natural selec- tion works , it seems to follow that anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish . Therefore we must expect that when we go and look at the behaviour of baboons , humans , and all ...
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... look as if they are deliber- ately inviting the predator's attention , almost as if they are teasing the predator . This observation has led to a delightfully daring theory . The theory was originally foreshadowed by N. Smythe but ...
... look as if they are deliber- ately inviting the predator's attention , almost as if they are teasing the predator . This observation has led to a delightfully daring theory . The theory was originally foreshadowed by N. Smythe but ...
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... looks as if memes are not high- fidelity replicators at all . Every time a scientist hears an idea and passes it on ... look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes . If a black and a white person mate , their children do not ...
... looks as if memes are not high- fidelity replicators at all . Every time a scientist hears an idea and passes it on ... look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes . If a black and a white person mate , their children do not ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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