The Selfish GeneThis nontechnical description of modern genetics is based on the insight that replicating structures have a built-in drive for self-preservation. A fascinating and provocative popular account. |
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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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Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? | 1 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
The gene machine | 49 |
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advantage 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 fact father favour female fights gene pool genetic unit grudgers happen hawk hawks and doves human idea individual individual’s kin selection kind large number less living look male mate 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 W. D. Hamilton workers Wynne-Edwards 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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