The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary editionOUP Oxford, 16 mrt 2006 - 384 pagina's The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and 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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... argument it is , and what sort of an argument it is not . If we were told that a man had lived a long and prosperous life in the world of Chicago gangsters , we would be entitled to make some guesses as to the sort of man he was . We ...
... argument it is , and what sort of an argument it is not . If we were told that a man had lived a long and prosperous life in the world of Chicago gangsters , we would be entitled to make some guesses as to the sort of man he was . We ...
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... argument just put might go something like this . Even in the group of altruists , there will almost certainly be a dissenting minority who refuse to make any sacrifice . It there is just one selfish rebel , prepared to exploit the ...
... argument just put might go something like this . Even in the group of altruists , there will almost certainly be a dissenting minority who refuse to make any sacrifice . It there is just one selfish rebel , prepared to exploit the ...
Pagina 8
... argument , but the point I am making here is that the group selection idea is so deeply ingrained that Lorenz , like the author of the Nuffield Guide , evidently did not realize that his statements contravened orthodox Darwinian theory ...
... argument , but the point I am making here is that the group selection idea is so deeply ingrained that Lorenz , like the author of the Nuffield Guide , evidently did not realize that his statements contravened orthodox Darwinian theory ...
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... if it is expressed in an unfamiliar way . The argument takes time to develop , and we must begin at the beginning , with the very origin of life itself . XM 2x THE REPLICATORS In the beginning was simplicity . Why are people ? II.
... if it is expressed in an unfamiliar way . The argument takes time to develop , and we must begin at the beginning , with the very origin of life itself . XM 2x THE REPLICATORS In the beginning was simplicity . Why are people ? II.
Pagina 18
... argument . The point is that no conclusion of substance would be affected whichever way our argument was resolved . The facts of the lives and achievements of Newton and Darwin remain totally unchanged whether we label them ' great ' or ...
... argument . The point is that no conclusion of substance would be affected whichever way our argument was resolved . The facts of the lives and achievements of Newton and Darwin remain totally unchanged whether we label them ' great ' or ...
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4 The gene machine | 46 |
stability and the selfish machine | 66 |
6 Genesmanship | 88 |
7 Family planning | 109 |
8 Battle of the generations | 123 |
10 You scratch my back Ill ride on yours | 166 |
the new replicators | 189 |
12 Nice guys finish first | 202 |
13 The long reach of the gene | 234 |
Endnotes | 267 |
Updated bibliography | 333 |
Index and key to bibliography | 345 |
Extracts from reviews | 353 |
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