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The Selfish Gene
por Richard Dawkins
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- Bom
- ISBN 10
- 0199291152
- ISBN 13
- 9780199291151
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This revised edition of Dawkins' fascinating book contains two new chapters. One, entitled "Nice Guys Finish First," demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. The other new chapter, entitled "The Long Reach of the Gene," which reflects the arguments presented in Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. Containing a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world, the second edition once again drives home the fact that truth is stranger than fiction.
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The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- SQ9537540
- Título
- The Selfish Gene
- Autor
- Richard Dawkins
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Bom
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0199291152
- ISBN 13
- 9780199291151
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Local de publicação
- Oxford
- Data de publicação
- 2006
- LCCN
- 2007271478
- Palavras-chave
- genetics
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Science/Nature Writing;
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