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
... tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three - dimensional coiled pattern . Haemoglobin thornbushes are springing into their ' preferred ' shape in your body at a rate of about four hundred million million per ...
... tend , like two springs , to come to rest in exactly the same three - dimensional coiled pattern . Haemoglobin thornbushes are springing into their ' preferred ' shape in your body at a rate of about four hundred million million per ...
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... tend to stick there . The building blocks that attach themselves in this way will automatically be arranged in a sequence that mimics that of the replicator itself . It is easy then to think of them joining up to form a stable chain ...
... tend to stick there . The building blocks that attach themselves in this way will automatically be arranged in a sequence that mimics that of the replicator itself . It is easy then to think of them joining up to form a stable chain ...
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... tend to regard erratic copying as a bad thing , and in the case of human documents it is hard to think of examples where errors can be described as improvements . I suppose the scholars of the Septuagint could at least be said to have ...
... tend to regard erratic copying as a bad thing , and in the case of human documents it is hard to think of examples where errors can be described as improvements . I suppose the scholars of the Septuagint could at least be said to have ...
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... tend to become more numerous and , other things being equal , there would have been an ' evolutionary trend ' towards greater longevity in the population of molecules . But other things were probably not equal , and another property of ...
... tend to become more numerous and , other things being equal , there would have been an ' evolutionary trend ' towards greater longevity in the population of molecules . But other things were probably not equal , and another property of ...
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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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