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 13
... living organisms there are other large molecules which are highly complex , and their complexity shows itself on several levels . The haemoglobin of our blood is a typical protein molecule . It is built up from chains of smaller ...
... living organisms there are other large molecules which are highly complex , and their complexity shows itself on several levels . The haemoglobin of our blood is a typical protein molecule . It is built up from chains of smaller ...
Pagina 15
... living creatures . But bacteria and the rest of us are late - comers , and in those days large organic molecules could drift unmolested through the thickening broth . At some point a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by ...
... living creatures . But bacteria and the rest of us are late - comers , and in those days large organic molecules could drift unmolested through the thickening broth . At some point a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by ...
Pagina 18
... living creatures , and the mechanism is the same - natural selection . Should we then call the original replicator molecules ' living ' ? Who cares ? I might say to you ' Darwin was the greatest man who has ever lived ' , and you might ...
... living creatures , and the mechanism is the same - natural selection . Should we then call the original replicator molecules ' living ' ? Who cares ? I might say to you ' Darwin was the greatest man who has ever lived ' , and you might ...
Pagina 19
... living cells appeared . Replicators began not merely to exist , but to construct for themselves containers , vehicles for their continued existence . The replicators that survived were the ones that built survival machines for ...
... living cells appeared . Replicators began not merely to exist , but to construct for themselves containers , vehicles for their continued existence . The replicators that survived were the ones that built survival machines for ...
Pagina 21
... living species has been estimated at around three million , and the number of individual insects may be a million million million . Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs . An ...
... living species has been estimated at around three million , and the number of individual insects may be a million million million . Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs . An ...
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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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