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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... species , so I shall choose examples from other animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by individual animals . Blackheaded gulls nest in large colonies , the nests being only a few feet apart . When ...
... species , so I shall choose examples from other animals instead . First some miscel- laneous examples of selfish behaviour by individual animals . Blackheaded gulls nest in large colonies , the nests being only a few feet apart . When ...
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... species ' is a common euphemism for reproduction , and it is undeniably a consequence of reproduction . It requires only a slight over - stretching of logic to deduce that the ' function ' of reproduction is ' to ' perpetuate the species ...
... species ' is a common euphemism for reproduction , and it is undeniably a consequence of reproduction . It requires only a slight over - stretching of logic to deduce that the ' function ' of reproduction is ' to ' perpetuate the species ...
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... species . ' The anonymous author of this guide is blissfully ignorant of the fact that he has said something controversial . In this respect he is in Nobel Prize - winning company . Konrad Lorenz , in On Aggression , speaks of the ' species ...
... species . ' The anonymous author of this guide is blissfully ignorant of the fact that he has said something controversial . In this respect he is in Nobel Prize - winning company . Konrad Lorenz , in On Aggression , speaks of the ' species ...
Pagina 9
... species , and she then went on to say : ' Perhaps this is the real purpose of their existence , as only a few need to survive in order for the species to be preserved ' ! Robert Ardrey , in The Social Contract , used the group ...
... species , and she then went on to say : ' Perhaps this is the real purpose of their existence , as only a few need to survive in order for the species to be preserved ' ! Robert Ardrey , in The Social Contract , used the group ...
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30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. The feeling that members of one's own species deserve special moral consideration as compared with members of other species is old and deep . Killing people outside war is the most seriously ...
30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins. The feeling that members of one's own species deserve special moral consideration as compared with members of other species is old and deep . Killing people outside war is the most seriously ...
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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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