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The selfish gene / / Richard Dawkins
| The selfish gene / / Richard Dawkins |
| Autore | Dawkins Richard |
| Edizione | [40th anniversary edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina | 155.7 |
| Collana | Oxford Landmark Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Behavior genetics
Genetics Evolution (Biology) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-109306-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover ; THE SELFISH GENE; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION TO 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION ; FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION ; 1. WHY ARE PEOPLE? ; 2. THE REPLICATORS ; 3. IMMORTAL COILS ; 4. THE GENE MACHINE ; 5. AGGRESSION ; 6. GENESMANSHIP ; 7. FAMILY PLANNING ; 8. BATTLE OF THE GENERATIONS ; 9. BATTLE OF THE SEXES ; 10. YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I'LL RIDE ON YOURS ; 11. MEMES ; 12. NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST ; 13. THE LONG REACH OF THE GENE ; EPILOGUE TO 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ; ENDNOTES; CHAPTER 1: Why are people?
p. 1 . . . all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless . . .p. 3 I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.; p. 7 . . . it is possible that the female improves the male's sexual performanceby eating his head.; p. 14 . . . the fundamental unit of selection is not the species, nor the group, nor even, strictly, the individual. It is the gene . . .; CHAPTER 2: The replicators; p. 18 The simplified account I shall give [of the origin of life] is probably not too far from the truth.; p. 21 'Behold a virgin shall conceive . . . ' p. 25 Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots . . .CHAPTER 3: Immortal coils; p. 30 . . . impossible to disentangle the contribution of one gene from that of another.; p. 36 The definition I want to use comes from G. C. Williams.; p. 43 . . . the individual is too large and too temporary a genetic unit . . .; p. 51 Another theory, due to Sir Peter Medawar . . .; p. 55 What is the good of sex?; p. 57 . . . the surplus DNA is . . . a parasite, or at best a harmless but useless passenger . . . (see also p. 237); CHAPTER 4: The gene machine p. 63 Brains may be regarded as analogous in function to computers.p. 68 There is a civilization 200 light-years away, in the constellation of Andromeda.; p. 71 . . . strategies and tricks of the living trade . . .; p. 76 Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain's simulation of the world becomes so complete that it must include a model of itself.; p. 78 A gene for altruistic behaviour . . .; p. 79 Hygienic bees; p. 81 This is the behaviour that can be broadly labelled communication.; CHAPTER 5: Aggression: stability and the selfish machine; p. 90 . . . evolutionarily stable strategy . . . p. 97 . . . retaliator emerges as evolutionarily stable.p. 98 Unfortunately, we know too little at present to assign realistic numbers to the costs and benefits of various outcomes in nature.; p. 104 The neatest demonstration I know of this form of behavioural asymmetry . . .; p. 106 Paradoxical ESS; p. 106 . . . a kind of dominance hierarchy [in crickets] . . .; p. 109 . . . the ESS concept as one of the most important advances inevolutionary theory since Darwin. p. 113 Progressive evolution may be not so much a steady upward climb as a series of discrete steps from stable plateau to stable plateau. |
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| Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The selfish gene
| The selfish gene |
| Autore | Dawkins, Richard |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | xi, 352 p. ; 20 cm |
| Disciplina | 575.1 |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Ecologia - Modelli matematici
Genetica - Modelli matematici |
| ISBN | 0-19-286092-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-990001357220403321 |
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Dawkins, Richard
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| Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1989 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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