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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Pagina 3
... behaviour , if we really are unique among animals in this respect , it is , at the very least , still interesting to inquire about the rule to which we have so recently become the exception . And if our species is not so exceptional as ...
... behaviour , if we really are unique among animals in this respect , it is , at the very least , still interesting to inquire about the rule to which we have so recently become the exception . And if our species is not so exceptional as ...
Pagina 4
... behaviour of baboons you will find it to be selfish ; therefore the chances are that human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by ...
... behaviour of baboons you will find it to be selfish ; therefore the chances are that human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by ...
Pagina 5
... behaviour . It is difficult to suppress subjective habits of thought when we are dealing with our own species , so I shall choose examples from other animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by ...
... behaviour . It is difficult to suppress subjective habits of thought when we are dealing with our own species , so I shall choose examples from other animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by ...
Pagina 6
... behaviour . The stinging behaviour of worker bees is a very effective defence against honey robbers . But the bees who do the stinging are kamikaze fighters . In the act of stinging , vital internal organs are usually torn out of the ...
... behaviour . The stinging behaviour of worker bees is a very effective defence against honey robbers . But the bees who do the stinging are kamikaze fighters . In the act of stinging , vital internal organs are usually torn out of the ...
Pagina 8
... behaviour of the individuals in that group . He might even admit that if only the individuals in a group had the gift of foresight they could see that in the long run their own best interests lay in restraining their selfish greed , to ...
... behaviour of the individuals in that group . He might even admit that if only the individuals in a group had the gift of foresight they could see that in the long run their own best interests lay in restraining their selfish greed , to ...
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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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