The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Fellow of New College, Oxford.

出版者:OUP Oxford

作者:Richard Dawkins

页数:384

出版时间:2006-5-25

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780199291151

图书标签:心理学科普进化论Richard-Dawkins科学evolutiongeneScience

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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 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.

读后感

自私不是人性的定语 《自私的基因》的作者说过这样一句话： “我打算在我的《自私的基因》一书之后补写第二卷，对人类作一些论述。而我发现《美德的起源》一书正与我想象的第二卷的内容一模一样。” —这句话是他对《美德的起源》这本书的推荐，而这本书正是说人类的合作本...  

初读此书，读起来是很费一番功夫的。但最终读下来之后，不禁让人有再次阅读的冲动。从没想过一本书会彻底地颠覆我对事物重构的看法，不得不称赞作者的学识渊博与科学求知。 本书对我最大的震撼就是：人的本能注定是自私自利的。看似我们所有无私的举动都掺杂着自私的动机。因...  

看自私的基因，多少也算是简单通俗的小册子一本。讲的是自私行为和利他行为在生物学上的意义。利他无非是为了于人方便，于己也方便；自私才是根本。 书中视基因为自私行为的基本单位，因为“从发生在最最低级的水平上的选择出发，是解释进化论的最好方法。” 从基因出发的世界...  

精华倒有一句：基因随机突变后有可能会打破原来的平衡点，达到新的平衡点时，基因因此存活下来，也就是新物种算是形成了。（当然，物种的化分只是遵守人类的思维（人类倾向于把同一物种的两个个体生下的后代规定为属于这种物种，这种自增长性使得科学家发现各种物种的数量满足...  

在 kindle 上看完了. 这本书(注: 30周年纪念版新增了两章, 当时没看)有3部分: 基因(DNA 片段)的世界观 - 基因的生存策略(Evolutionarily Stable Strategy) - 文化的类基因性. 总的来说能提供对世界更深一层的视角, 看到平常社会视角之下, 更底层的东西. 1. 基因的世界观 由来:...  

用户评价

论证部分好罗嗦，而且一旦发现selfish gene这一观点无法证伪后，就感觉这本书再读下去没意思了。除了能提供一种全新的世界观之外，这书似乎也没什么特别的地方，当然也许是我不懂而已。最后，略不喜Dawkins的傲慢态度。

Gene, the immortal replicator, is the unit for evolution. meme的那部分论述有点乱来了。ESS那段，在上完Game Theory的课后特别有亲切感。可能太多年了吧，已经不觉得里面的观点震撼了，可见它的影响力和改造力。ps.英国人就是自负得很。

20世纪思想史上极少数几个需要认真对付的观点之一，这本书对于我本科时代的影响是决定性的

insightful to understand why the unit of evolution is the gene

很好