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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growth rather than of reproduction; but then, if you think about it, there is rather
little distinction between growth and non-sexual reproduction anyway, since both
occur by simple mitotic cell division. Sometimes the plants produced by
vegetative ...
growth rather than of reproduction; but then, if you think about it, there is rather
little distinction between growth and non-sexual reproduction anyway, since both
occur by simple mitotic cell division. Sometimes the plants produced by
vegetative ...
Pagina 47
And if sexual, as opposed to non-sexual, reproduction benefits a gene for sexual
reproduction, that is a sufficient ... This comes perilously close to being a circular
argument, since the existence of sexuality is a precondition for the whole chain ...
And if sexual, as opposed to non-sexual, reproduction benefits a gene for sexual
reproduction, that is a sufficient ... This comes perilously close to being a circular
argument, since the existence of sexuality is a precondition for the whole chain ...
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If one parent can get away with investing less than his or her fair share of costly
resources in each child, however, he will be better off, since he will have more to
spend on other children by other sexual partners, and so propagate more of his ...
If one parent can get away with investing less than his or her fair share of costly
resources in each child, however, he will be better off, since he will have more to
spend on other children by other sexual partners, and so propagate more of his ...
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