Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
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.
發表於2025-03-28
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上大學後離科學方麵的讀物遠瞭很多,可能周圍的都是文科生,就算他們以前讀理科的,光一堆法學的書就擠走瞭讀書的空閑,何況還有很多人熱衷於各種活動,比如我這陣子。 在醫院等醫生的時候讀瞭前2章,高中時對生物很感興趣(不代錶考試高分),前2章感覺像復習以前的知...
評分精華倒有一句:基因隨機突變後有可能會打破原來的平衡點,達到新的平衡點時,基因因此存活下來,也就是新物種算是形成瞭。(當然,物種的化分隻是遵守人類的思維(人類傾嚮於把同一物種的兩個個體生下的後代規定為屬於這種物種,這種自增長性使得科學傢發現各種物種的數量滿足...
評分初讀此書,讀起來是很費一番功夫的。但最終讀下來之後,不禁讓人有再次閱讀的衝動。從沒想過一本書會徹底地顛覆我對事物重構的看法,不得不稱贊作者的學識淵博與科學求知。 本書對我最大的震撼就是:人的本能注定是自私自利的。看似我們所有無私的舉動都摻雜著自私的動機。因...
評分1.看到第四章,一個明顯錯誤,作者把人腦比為計算機、把基因比為外星人,這種邏輯的顛倒是非常滑稽的。任何研究過AI或者認識論的人都不會犯這種低級錯誤。 2.擬人化和還原論的隱喻彌散到全篇文章中,如果仔細去掉這些非精確的部分,我們就會發現作者時常自相矛盾。比如他說...
評分作者理查德·道金斯聲名遠播,是著名的“無神論四騎士”成員,粉絲眾多,我知道寫這篇文章會得罪他的影迷,所以我必須聲明本人也是無神論者,而且對亞伯拉罕一神教厭惡至極,所以本人全力支持道金斯對宗教的批判。但這不等於我認同他所有的觀點,比如這本書,我認為他寫的很爛...
圖書標籤: 心理學 科普 進化論 Richard-Dawkins 科學 evolution gene Science
論證部分好羅嗦,而且一旦發現selfish gene這一觀點無法證僞後,就感覺這本書再讀下去沒意思瞭。除瞭能提供一種全新的世界觀之外,這書似乎也沒什麼特彆的地方,當然也許是我不懂而已。最後,略不喜Dawkins的傲慢態度。
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評分大自然在下一盤很大的棋....另外,最後兩章完全沒有看懂,求看過的指點 > <
評分看瞭這本書纔知道我不過隻是基因們的一個生存機器、一個拷貝,我那一萬小時倒計時也隻是基因們提前編製的程序的一個不足為道的執行。但是,知道我這個生存機器也是宏大漫長的基因戰爭曆史的一個片斷,我又覺得這有“make a dent”的浪漫之意。Go gene! 給我滅瞭其它基因!
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