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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... young ! A gene which makes its possessors die is called a lethal gene . A semi - lethal gene has some debilitating effect , such that it makes death from other causes more probable . Any gene exerts its max- imum effect on bodies at ...
... young ! A gene which makes its possessors die is called a lethal gene . A semi - lethal gene has some debilitating effect , such that it makes death from other causes more probable . Any gene exerts its max- imum effect on bodies at ...
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... Young has pointed out , the genes have to perform a task analogous to prediction . When an embryo survival machine is being built , the dangers and problems of its life lie in the future . Who can say what carnivores crouch waiting for ...
... Young has pointed out , the genes have to perform a task analogous to prediction . When an embryo survival machine is being built , the dangers and problems of its life lie in the future . Who can say what carnivores crouch waiting for ...
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... young , although the parent's own young will stop short of the total selfishness which is to be expected of a cuckoo . This chapter , and the next in which we discuss conflict be- tween mates , could seem horribly cynical , and might ...
... young , although the parent's own young will stop short of the total selfishness which is to be expected of a cuckoo . This chapter , and the next in which we discuss conflict be- tween mates , could seem horribly cynical , and might ...
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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
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