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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Pagina 43
... offspring , and a gene which made young children develop fatal cancer would not be passed on to any offspring at all . According to this theory then , senile decay is simply a by - product of the accumulation in the gene pool of late ...
... offspring , and a gene which made young children develop fatal cancer would not be passed on to any offspring at all . According to this theory then , senile decay is simply a by - product of the accumulation in the gene pool of late ...
Pagina 102
... offspring : they don't count as kin ! Now of course he knows perfectly well that offspring are kin to their parents , but he prefers not to invoke the theory of kin selection in order to explain altruistic care by parents of their own ...
... offspring : they don't count as kin ! Now of course he knows perfectly well that offspring are kin to their parents , but he prefers not to invoke the theory of kin selection in order to explain altruistic care by parents of their own ...
Pagina 185
... offspring . Suicidal self - sacrifice therefore seldom evolves . But a worker bee never bears offspring of its own . All its efforts are directed to preserving its genes by caring for relatives other than its own offspring . The death ...
... offspring . Suicidal self - sacrifice therefore seldom evolves . But a worker bee never bears offspring of its own . All its efforts are directed to preserving its genes by caring for relatives other than its own offspring . The death ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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