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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... reason for studying zoology than its possible ' usefulness ' , and the general likeableness of animals . This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly - designed pieces of machinery in the known universe . Put it ...
... reason for studying zoology than its possible ' usefulness ' , and the general likeableness of animals . This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly - designed pieces of machinery in the known universe . Put it ...
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... reason for its own existence . If superior creatures from space ever visit earth , the first question they will ask , in order to assess the level of our civilization , is : ' Have they discovered evolution yet ? ' Living organisms had ...
... reason for its own existence . If superior creatures from space ever visit earth , the first question they will ask , in order to assess the level of our civilization , is : ' Have they discovered evolution yet ? ' Living organisms had ...
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... reason for the great appeal of the group - selection theory is that it is thoroughly in tune with the moral and political ideals that most of us share . We may frequently behave selfishly as individuals , but in our more idealistic ...
... reason for the great appeal of the group - selection theory is that it is thoroughly in tune with the moral and political ideals that most of us share . We may frequently behave selfishly as individuals , but in our more idealistic ...
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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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