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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... nests are so isolated from each other that the contents of your own nest are almost bound to be your own chicks . Adult herring gulls do not recognize their own eggs , and will happily sit on other gull eggs , and even crude wooden ...
... nests are so isolated from each other that the contents of your own nest are almost bound to be your own chicks . Adult herring gulls do not recognize their own eggs , and will happily sit on other gull eggs , and even crude wooden ...
Pagina 143
... nest . It gets underneath an egg , fitting it into a hollow in its back . Then it slowly backs up the side of the nest , balancing the egg between its wing - stubs , and topples the egg out on to the ground . It does the same with all ...
... nest . It gets underneath an egg , fitting it into a hollow in its back . Then it slowly backs up the side of the nest , balancing the egg between its wing - stubs , and topples the egg out on to the ground . It does the same with all ...
Pagina 144
... nests . They are never normally found in any nest except their own . Could the behaviour represent an evolved anti - cuckoo adaptation ? Has natural selec- tion been favouring a policy of counter - attack in the swallow gene pool ...
... nests . They are never normally found in any nest except their own . Could the behaviour represent an evolved anti - cuckoo adaptation ? Has natural selec- tion been favouring a policy of counter - attack in the swallow gene pool ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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