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
... human nature . Others would disagree . It all depends where you stand in the debate over ' nature versus nurture ' as determinants of human attributes . This brings me to the second thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one ...
... human nature . Others would disagree . It all depends where you stand in the debate over ' nature versus nurture ' as determinants of human attributes . This brings me to the second thing this book is not : it is not an advocacy of one ...
Pagina 4
... human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selection works , it seems to ...
... human behaviour is selfish also ' . The logic of my ' Chicago gangster ' argument is quite different . It is this . Humans and baboons have evolved by natural selection . If you look at the way natural selection works , it seems to ...
Pagina 9
... human species as the object of our fellow feeling . This humanist broadening of the target of our altruism has an interesting corollary , which again seems to buttress the ' good of the species ' idea in evolution . The politically ...
... human species as the object of our fellow feeling . This humanist broadening of the target of our altruism has an interesting corollary , which again seems to buttress the ' good of the species ' idea in evolution . The politically ...
Pagina 10
... human criminals , while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly mild animal pests . Indeed we kill members of other harmless species as a means of recreation and amusement . A human foetus , with no more human ...
... human criminals , while we cheerfully countenance the shooting without trial of fairly mild animal pests . Indeed we kill members of other harmless species as a means of recreation and amusement . A human foetus , with no more human ...
Pagina 13
... human body . The precise thornbush shape of a protein molecule such as haemoglobin is stable in the sense that two chains consisting of the same sequences of amino acids will tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same ...
... human body . The precise thornbush shape of a protein molecule such as haemoglobin is stable in the sense that two chains consisting of the same sequences of amino acids will tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same ...
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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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