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 1
... evolution yet ? ' Living organisms had existed on earth , without ever knowing why , for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them . His name was Charles Darwin . To be fair , others had had ...
... evolution yet ? ' Living organisms had existed on earth , without ever knowing why , for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them . His name was Charles Darwin . To be fair , others had had ...
Pagina 2
... evolution works . They made the erroneous assumption that the important thing in evolution is the good of the species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) . It is ironic that Ashley Montagu should ...
... evolution works . They made the erroneous assumption that the important thing in evolution is the good of the species ( or the group ) rather than the good of the individual ( or the gene ) . It is ironic that Ashley Montagu should ...
Pagina 4
... evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selection works , it seems to follow that anything that has ... evolution . This is because of the enormous time available for such influences to make themselves felt . It is ...
... evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selection works , it seems to follow that anything that has ... evolution . This is because of the enormous time available for such influences to make themselves felt . It is ...
Pagina 7
... evolve to do things ' for the good of the species ' or ' for the good of the group ' . It is easy to see how this idea got ... Evolution works by natural selection , and natural selection means the differential survival of the ' fittest ...
... evolve to do things ' for the good of the species ' or ' for the good of the group ' . It is easy to see how this idea got ... Evolution works by natural selection , and natural selection means the differential survival of the ' fittest ...
Pagina 8
... evolution is blind to the future . Although the group - selection theory now commands little sup- port within the ranks of those professional biologists who understand evolution , it does have great intuitive appeal . Successive ...
... evolution is blind to the future . Although the group - selection theory now commands little sup- port within the ranks of those professional biologists who understand evolution , it does have great intuitive appeal . Successive ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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