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The Selfish Gene
- Gesprochen von: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
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Even after close to 40 years this books delivers a fascinating and compelling story about the true shapers of history. The suspense is kept throughout the book as every new concept crushes the old or at least puts it into perspective: memes as potential supergenes, genes extending their influence across living creatures and ensembles that should be regarded as single living beings, just to name of few.
The book is full of brilliant ideas but at the same time a proof of the limiations of the human mind: the relative brief span from the publishing date to today are enough to make some apects of the book obsolete: the inability of the human race to foresee the extend of computer development, the complete negation of epigenetics and the absence of black swans in the repeated games.
The book made me sad not to have read it 30 years ago but I enjoyed every page of it. Even made more compelling by the fact that it was read by the author and his (third) wife
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Excellent book!
Excellent book! Highly recommend for anybody with a scientific mindset and willing to transcend preconceived 'truths' about life and evolution.
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A mind-blowing book narrated for the best voices, who really knew what to emphasize for the listener's understanding.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 04.09.2018
Ein Klassiker unter den Darwinisten
Richard Dawkins‘ wohl wichtiges Werk, welches Ende der 70er Jahre die Erkenntnisse rund um Evolution nach vorne katapultiert hat. Dennoch ist es sehr langatmig, mit zahlreichen repetitiven Vergleichen versetzt und an manchen Stellen zu selbstgerecht.
Wer Interesse an diesem Gebiet hat, muss da wohl durch.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 10.01.2022
Inspirierend!
Dieses hervorragende Buch ist auch viele Jahre nach seinem Erscheinen noch top aktuell. Der Grundgedanke, dass individuelle Organismen nicht selbst Subjekt der Evolution sind, sondern nur als Vehikel der Evolution von Genen dienen, wird gut gegliedert dargelegt und mit anschaulichen Beispielen untermauert. Wo sich die Beispiele aus der ersten Auflage nicht erhärtet haben, wird auch diese Tatsache offen kommuniziert.
Die Umsetzung als Hörbuch ist großartig gelungen, die Sprecher haben durch gute Betonung, klare Aussprache und angenehme Geschwindigkeit bis zum Ende meine Aufmerksamkeit gehalten, und ich werde das Buch bei Gelegenheit auch ein zweites Mal gerne hören.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 29.11.2021
Thought Provocing
The selfish gene is a classic. The author provides explanations in layman’s terms for deep ideas. If biology lessons would be like this, the world would be full of biologists!
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- Nils Schneider
- 10.10.2020
Ingenious
Sums up live in a nutshell.
An intriguing new way to look at the world.
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- k philipp
- 21.08.2020
Atemberaubend erkenntnisreich
Dieses Buch ist ein Muss für jeden, der sein Verständnis von unserer Welt auf das nächste Level heben möchte.
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- FeIndividualist
- 04.01.2020
"40+ years after"
1976, this book appeared. And I knew nearly everything that Richard Dawkins narrated. But hearing it, finding the dense links between the facts that I heard as isolated pieces since school is an experience, that is worth buying and hearing it. When a relative used the term "meme" (as synonym for "viral messages"), I looked for it in wikipedia. I was stunned to see this book mentioned as origin for this word(, too).
The idea of the selfish gene was brilliant 40 years ago. This is a perfect introduction, entertaining and in natural language. It is easy to understand, even without knowledge on genetics. It was revised in the late 1980s and these comments were added and clearly marked. (There were also BBC documentaries in the 1980s starring Richard Dawkins.) My favourite are the parts of the book with the interpretation of the results of the game theory. Neither the book nor the reading or recording could have been better. But I admit, that there were paragraphs, I would have prefered reading instead hearing them.
However, time has passed by. The few technical biological terms used in the book are quite common nowadays. Do not expect to hear any recent news on genetics. The game theory term "Evolutionarily stable strategy" (ESS) indicates a refinement of the Nash equilibrium. I mention this only, because some people might have seen the movie "A beautiful mind" about the mathematician J.F. Nash.
I should have already read this book, when I was 15 or 16 years old, when I discovered the prisoner's dilemma. (It is also explained in the book.) It is also useful on business, that you know the stability analysis of the different behaviour strategies (as they are given in the examples). Cooperative strategies always pay off; and some are better than others.
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