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 14
... DNA itself . Processes analogous to these must have given rise to the ' primeval soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some three to four thousand million years ago . The 14 The replicators.
... DNA itself . Processes analogous to these must have given rise to the ' primeval soup ' which biologists and chemists believe constituted the seas some three to four thousand million years ago . The 14 The replicators.
Pagina 15
... replicator . This process could continue as a progress- ive stacking up , layer upon layer . This is how crystals are formed . On the other hand , the two chains might split apart , in which case we have two replicators , each of which ...
... replicator . This process could continue as a progress- ive stacking up , layer upon layer . This is how crystals are formed . On the other hand , the two chains might split apart , in which case we have two replicators , each of which ...
Pagina 16
... replicators can in a real sense give rise to improvement , and it was essential for the progressive evolution of life that some errors were made . We do not know how accurately the original replicator molecules made their copies . Their ...
... replicators can in a real sense give rise to improvement , and it was essential for the progressive evolution of life that some errors were made . We do not know how accurately the original replicator molecules made their copies . Their ...
Pagina 17
... replicators were far more erratic , but in any case we may be sure that mistakes were made , and these mistakes were cumulative . As mis - copyings were made and propagated , the primeval soup became filled by a population not of ...
... replicators were far more erratic , but in any case we may be sure that mistakes were made , and these mistakes were cumulative . As mis - copyings were made and propagated , the primeval soup became filled by a population not of ...
Pagina 18
... replicators ( and nowadays of the genes ) to prevent it happening . Jacques Monod made this point very well in his Herbert Spencer lecture , after wryly remarking : ' Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody ...
... replicators ( and nowadays of the genes ) to prevent it happening . Jacques Monod made this point very well in his Herbert Spencer lecture , after wryly remarking : ' Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody ...
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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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