The Selfish GeneAs 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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Why are people? I | 1 |
The replicators | 13 |
Immortal coils | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advantage allele altruism altruistic behaviour ancestors animals ants argument average pay-off baby bees behave benefit birds body brain brothers and sisters chance chapter cheats child chromosome cistron complex copies copulate cost crossing-over cuckoo Darwin doves eggs evolution evolutionarily stable strategy evolutionary evolve example expect exploit father favour female fights gene pool genetic unit grudgers happen hawk hawks and doves human idea individual kin selection kind large number less living look male mate Maynard Smith means meme meme pool molecules mother natural selection nest offspring paradoxical parental investment particular pattern population possible predators predict primeval soup queen rearing reason reciprocal altruism relatedness replicators reproduction risk rival selfish gene theory sense sex ratio sexual share simple simulation social insects soup species sperms suckers suppose survival machines tend territory things tion Trivers W. D. Hamilton workers Wynne-Edwards young