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 14
... tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three - dimensional coiled pattern . Haemoglobin thornbushes are springing into their ' preferred ' shape in your body at a rate of about four hundred million million per ...
... tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three - dimensional coiled pattern . Haemoglobin thornbushes are springing into their ' preferred ' shape in your body at a rate of about four hundred million million per ...
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... tends to be shut off when the arms approach the horizontal posi- tion . So , if the engine goes too fast , some of its steam will be shut off , and it will tend to slow down . If it slows down too much , more steam will automatically be ...
... tends to be shut off when the arms approach the horizontal posi- tion . So , if the engine goes too fast , some of its steam will be shut off , and it will tend to slow down . If it slows down too much , more steam will automatically be ...
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... tend to be favoured in the gene pool . Conversely , natural selection will tend to favour females who become good at seeing through such deception . One way they can do this is to play especially hard to get when they are courted by a ...
... tend to be favoured in the gene pool . Conversely , natural selection will tend to favour females who become good at seeing through such deception . One way they can do this is to play especially hard to get when they are courted by a ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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