The Selfish GeneAs 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 125
Rearing baby birds is a costly business. The mother has to invest a large quantity
of food and energy in manufacturing eggs. Possibly with her mate's help, she
invests a large effort in building a nest to hold her eggs and protect them. Parents
...
Rearing baby birds is a costly business. The mother has to invest a large quantity
of food and energy in manufacturing eggs. Possibly with her mate's help, she
invests a large effort in building a nest to hold her eggs and protect them. Parents
...
Pagina 126
There is, in fact, nothing to stop a couple with no material resources at all having
and rearing precisely as many children as the woman can physically bear. But
the welfare state is a very unnatural thing. In nature, parents who have more ...
There is, in fact, nothing to stop a couple with no material resources at all having
and rearing precisely as many children as the woman can physically bear. But
the welfare state is a very unnatural thing. In nature, parents who have more ...
Pagina 158
It will in any case only pay a father to desert his wife and child if the wife has a
reasonable chance of rearing the child on her own. Trivers has considered the
possible courses of action open to a mother who has been deserted by her mate.
It will in any case only pay a father to desert his wife and child if the wife has a
reasonable chance of rearing the child on her own. Trivers has considered the
possible courses of action open to a mother who has been deserted by her mate.
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