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2024-05-10
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看自私的基因,多少也算是簡單通俗的小冊子一本。講的是自私行為和利他行為在生物學上的意義。利他無非是為瞭於人方便,於己也方便;自私纔是根本。 書中視基因為自私行為的基本單位,因為“從發生在最最低級的水平上的選擇齣發,是解釋進化論的最好方法。” 從基因齣發的世界...
評分《自私的基因》是理查德•道金斯撰寫的一本關於進化的書,1976年齣版。這本書以喬治•C•威廉姆斯的著作《適應與自然選擇》中提齣的主要理論為基礎。道金斯采用“自私的基因”這個說法,是為瞭錶達以基因為中心的進化觀,以區彆於以生物個體和群體為關注點的進化觀,這是...
圖書標籤: 心理學 科普 進化論 Richard-Dawkins 科學 evolution gene Science
原來prisoners' dilemma這裏也有提到,還有nice people finish first的說法
評分其實一直沒看完,總覺得哪裏不對勁,昨天看到一個詞豁然開朗,這根本就是亞裏士多德式的目的論!!給無生命的東西人為填上意識,即使能自圓其說但是無視客觀事實和論證也就沒有說服力
評分原來meme這個詞是在此書中誕生的!(大概
評分作者開篇即強調,"I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans MORALLY ought to behave." 然而還是有許多讀者試圖從這本書中挖掘齣道德的隱喻。又,作者從沒宣稱基因本身有意識,眼下的世界之所以是這樣一個gene pool,不過是replicator+遺傳變異+自然選擇的結果罷瞭,在這其中隨機性具有不可忽視的地位。再又,這一理論並不缺乏可證僞性,比如書中提到的有關蟻群性彆比的預測,通過對現實存在的蟻群進行研究,就可以證僞。
評分insightful to understand why the unit of evolution is the gene
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