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 55
... play chess as well as human grand masters , but they have reached the standard of a good amateur . More strictly , one should say programs have reached the standard of a good amateur , for a chess - playing program is not fussy which ...
... play chess as well as human grand masters , but they have reached the standard of a good amateur . More strictly , one should say programs have reached the standard of a good amateur , for a chess - playing program is not fussy which ...
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... play and low - stake play seem reasonable . Are there animal gamblers who play for high stakes , and others with a more con- servative game ? In Chapter 9 we shall see that it is often possible to picture males as high - stake high ...
... play and low - stake play seem reasonable . Are there animal gamblers who play for high stakes , and others with a more con- servative game ? In Chapter 9 we shall see that it is often possible to picture males as high - stake high ...
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... playing hawk seven fights in a row , then dove five fights in a row and so on . If any individual adopted such a ... play dove . The hawk and dove story is , of course , naïvely simple . It is a ' model ' , something which does not ...
... playing hawk seven fights in a row , then dove five fights in a row and so on . If any individual adopted such a ... play dove . The hawk and dove story is , of course , naïvely simple . It is a ' model ' , something which does not ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advantage alarm calls 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 father favour female fights gene pool genetic unit grudgers happen hawk hawks and doves human idea individual kin selection kind large number less living look male mate Maynard Smith 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 workers Wynne-Edwards young