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 xvii
... ideas are hovering in the air . I wrote The Selfish Gene in something resembling a fever of excitement . When Oxford University Press approached me for a second edition they insisted that a conventional , comprehensive , page by page ...
... ideas are hovering in the air . I wrote The Selfish Gene in something resembling a fever of excitement . When Oxford University Press approached me for a second edition they insisted that a conventional , comprehensive , page by page ...
Pagina xxi
... ideas in non - mathematical language , without losing their essence . I do not know how far I have succeeded in this ... ideas perhaps ; even stimulation of new ideas of his own . If this is too high an aspiration , may I at least hope ...
... ideas in non - mathematical language , without losing their essence . I do not know how far I have succeeded in this ... ideas perhaps ; even stimulation of new ideas of his own . If this is too high an aspiration , may I at least hope ...
Pagina xxii
... ideas from sources not conventionally regarded as ethological . This book is largely based on these new ideas . Their originators are acknowledged in the appropriate places in the text ; the dominant figures are G. C. Williams , J ...
... ideas from sources not conventionally regarded as ethological . This book is largely based on these new ideas . Their originators are acknowledged in the appropriate places in the text ; the dominant figures are G. C. Williams , J ...
Pagina 7
... idea got its start in biology . Much of an animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the acts of altruistic self- sacrifice that are observed in nature are performed by parents towards their young . ' Perpetuation of the ...
... idea got its start in biology . Much of an animal's life is devoted to reproduction , and most of the acts of altruistic self- sacrifice that are observed in nature are performed by parents towards their young . ' Perpetuation of the ...
Pagina 8
... 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 . I recently heard a delightful example of the same thing 8 Why are ...
... 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 . I recently heard a delightful example of the same thing 8 Why are ...
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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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