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 ...
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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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Why are people? | 1 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
The gene machine | 49 |
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actually advantage altruism animals apparently argument average baby bear become behaviour benefit better birds body brothers building called cells chance chapter cheats child chromosome close common contain copies cost cuckoo effect eggs equal evolution evolutionary evolve example existence expect fact father favour female fights gene pool genetic give half happen hawk human idea important individual interesting investment kind less living look male mate means meme molecules mother natural selection nest once original parents particular perhaps population possible predators probably ratio reason relatedness replicators reproduction rival seems selfish selfish gene sense sexual sexual reproduction share simple single sisters social species stable strategy successful suppose survival machines tend theory things tion true turn unit whole workers young
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Selfish Gene Oxford Paperbacks |
| Auteur | Richard Dawkins |
| Editie | herdruk |
| Uitgever | Oxford University Press, 1978 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 6 feb 2015 |
| ISBN | 0195200004, 9780195200003 |
| Lengte | 224 pagina's |
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