This is a 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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This is a 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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Mit diesem Buch, das zum ersten Mal im Jahre 1976 erschienen ist, hat Richard Dawkins seinen Ruf als einer der maßgeblichen Evolutionsbiologen und als einer der besten Wissenschaftsautoren aller Zeiten begründet. Seit 1995 hat er die - eigens für ihn geschaffene - Charles Simonyi Professur For The Public Understanding of Science an der Oxford University inne. Selbstverständlich ist er Mitglied der Royal Society und der Royal Society of Literature. Ebenso selbstverständlich hat er zahlreiche Preise und Auszeichnungen erhalten: 1987 den Royal Society of Literature Award und den Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, 1990 den Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, 1994 den Nakayama Prize, 1997 den International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science, 2001 den Kistler Prize und 2005 den Shakespeare Prize. Wann endlich wird er den Nobelpreis bekommen?
Schon allein das Inhaltsverzeichnis der 1976-er Ausgabe zu lesen war ein Vergnügen:
1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
3. Immortal coils
4. The gene machine
5. Agression: stability and the selfish machine
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: the new replicators
In der Ausgabe von 1989 wurden noch die beiden folgenden Kapitel angefügt:
12. Nice guys finish first
13. The long reach of the gene
Kapitel 12 präsentiert und diskutiert die Computersimulationen, die der Politikwissenschaftler Robert Axelrod durchgeführt hat, um die »Evolution der Kooperation« zu erhellen. Dawkins gelingt es auf wunderbare Weise, die Axelrodschen Untersuchungen durchsichtig darzustellen.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
Schon allein das Inhaltsverzeichnis der 1976-er Ausgabe zu lesen war ein Vergnügen:
1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
3. Immortal coils
4. The gene machine
5. Agression: stability and the selfish machine
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: the new replicators
In der Ausgabe von 1989 wurden noch die beiden folgenden Kapitel angefügt:
12. Nice guys finish first
13. The long reach of the gene
Kapitel 12 präsentiert und diskutiert die Computersimulationen, die der Politikwissenschaftler Robert Axelrod durchgeführt hat, um die »Evolution der Kooperation« zu erhellen. Dawkins gelingt es auf wunderbare Weise, die Axelrodschen Untersuchungen durchsichtig darzustellen.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
Von Markus N.
Format:Kindle Edition
It's one of the best books I've read for s long time. Im definitely going to buy all other books by Richard Dawkins and im really looking forward to reading them all.
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This is one of those books that make perfect sense. It is like somewhere deep inside you already knew things were the way Dawkins describes them, but "The Selfish Gene" perfectly presents, elaborates and systemizes those ideas. A great reading which i highly recommend for everyone.
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I like the book although it is an old printing and biro inscriptions have been made to it. However, it was cheap and I do not mind seing what others found noteworthy.
Shipping to Germany took nearly a month, but this was noted in the product description.
Shipping to Germany took nearly a month, but this was noted in the product description.
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Von Midasin
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Dawkins writes that "the argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes" (p.xxi) and that "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" (p.xxi). Yet, according to him, this book "is not science fiction; it is science" (p.xxi)!
Dawkins contrives to overlook the twin discoveries that:
1. the observable traits of organisms are mostly conditioned by the interactions of many genes;
2. most genes have multiple effects on many of these traits.
Dawkins transfers characteristics with which he is familiar from human behaviour on the macro-level to the inanimate components, "genes", of which we are physically constructed. He then proceeds to argue that these impersonal entities, which he imagines to possess characteristically human traits, infallibly generate the same unpleasant traits in human behaviour on the macro-level. So he writes: "The gene is the basic unit of selfishness" (p.36).
The absurdity is evident in that genes or other nonconscious entities cannot be either selfish or unselfish. They cannot "compete" against anything or "choose" anything.
If Dawkins were right, what would be the point of declaring, as he does: "Let us try to *teach* generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish" (p.3)? For if we really were machines, as he believes, even these very concepts would be meaningless to us. And certainly his oratory could have no effect whatever on our actual behaviour.
In fact genes do not force us to behave in any particular way. Neither can they possess the ability to direct or to comprehend all that is required to adopt a course of either heartless selfishness or heartfelt, sacrificial compassion.
Dawkins contrives to overlook the twin discoveries that:
1. the observable traits of organisms are mostly conditioned by the interactions of many genes;
2. most genes have multiple effects on many of these traits.
Dawkins transfers characteristics with which he is familiar from human behaviour on the macro-level to the inanimate components, "genes", of which we are physically constructed. He then proceeds to argue that these impersonal entities, which he imagines to possess characteristically human traits, infallibly generate the same unpleasant traits in human behaviour on the macro-level. So he writes: "The gene is the basic unit of selfishness" (p.36).
The absurdity is evident in that genes or other nonconscious entities cannot be either selfish or unselfish. They cannot "compete" against anything or "choose" anything.
If Dawkins were right, what would be the point of declaring, as he does: "Let us try to *teach* generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish" (p.3)? For if we really were machines, as he believes, even these very concepts would be meaningless to us. And certainly his oratory could have no effect whatever on our actual behaviour.
In fact genes do not force us to behave in any particular way. Neither can they possess the ability to direct or to comprehend all that is required to adopt a course of either heartless selfishness or heartfelt, sacrificial compassion.
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Von Roman Nies
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That social experiences are reflected directly in the genetic material and are even inherited was unheard of Darwin or Dawkins. That was also not written in the textbooks of Genetics. Lamarckism was frowned upon since Darwin and statements of the Bible that the sins of the fathers effect following generations ridiculed as myths. But now it seems to be scientific research, provided the news are correct.
The first who succeeded in this ground-shaking understanding was the biologist Emma Whitelaw at the Queensland Institue fo Medical Research. The Israelite biologist Eva Jablonka said that the whole discourse about inheritance and evolution would change and that it meant the end of the "selfish Gene".
Not long ago allegations that adaptation of an organism to the environment would pass over to the descendants was regarded as scientific heresy. They contradicted the ruling cognition of the evolution theory. It was said that accidental variations in the genetic material, so called mutations, supply the creatures with an advantage in the struggle for life.
It seems that Dawkins fabricated a hotshot, which he should urgently revise. The air for evolutionist is getting more and more thin. They need another helping sub-theory, or two?
The discoveries of the Epi-Geneticists are an example for a scientific truism, which is not well known to the public: scientific knowledge - here the evolution theory -is a preliminary knowledge. Whereby it is still the question whether the evolution theory is not just an ideology.
The "It is proved!", stated quickly, does not always mean the truth! Dawkins premature ideas concerning the Selfish Gene is such a "wanna-be-knowledge", which proves as en error in the light of serious scientific approach.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
The first who succeeded in this ground-shaking understanding was the biologist Emma Whitelaw at the Queensland Institue fo Medical Research. The Israelite biologist Eva Jablonka said that the whole discourse about inheritance and evolution would change and that it meant the end of the "selfish Gene".
Not long ago allegations that adaptation of an organism to the environment would pass over to the descendants was regarded as scientific heresy. They contradicted the ruling cognition of the evolution theory. It was said that accidental variations in the genetic material, so called mutations, supply the creatures with an advantage in the struggle for life.
It seems that Dawkins fabricated a hotshot, which he should urgently revise. The air for evolutionist is getting more and more thin. They need another helping sub-theory, or two?
The discoveries of the Epi-Geneticists are an example for a scientific truism, which is not well known to the public: scientific knowledge - here the evolution theory -is a preliminary knowledge. Whereby it is still the question whether the evolution theory is not just an ideology.
The "It is proved!", stated quickly, does not always mean the truth! Dawkins premature ideas concerning the Selfish Gene is such a "wanna-be-knowledge", which proves as en error in the light of serious scientific approach.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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