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 62
... simulation , model battles can be won or lost , simulated airliners fly or crash , economic policies lead to ... simulation can predict exactly what will happen in reality , but a good simulation is enormously preferable to blind trial ...
... simulation , model battles can be won or lost , simulated airliners fly or crash , economic policies lead to ... simulation can predict exactly what will happen in reality , but a good simulation is enormously preferable to blind trial ...
Pagina 63
... Simulation is both safer and faster . The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cul- minated in subjective consciousness . Why this should have hap- pened is , to me , the most profound mystery facing modern biology ...
... Simulation is both safer and faster . The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cul- minated in subjective consciousness . Why this should have hap- pened is , to me , the most profound mystery facing modern biology ...
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... simulation were of course com- pletely arbitrary - one or other of the two stable states will have a larger ' zone of attraction ' and will be more likely to be attained . Note incidentally that , although a population of cheats may be ...
... simulation were of course com- pletely arbitrary - one or other of the two stable states will have a larger ' zone of attraction ' and will be more likely to be attained . Note incidentally that , although a population of cheats may be ...
Inhoudsopgave
Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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