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The Selfish Gene

Von: Richard Dawkins
Gesprochen von: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
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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.©1989 Richard Dawkins (P)2011 Audible, Inc. Wissenschaft
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"Dawkins first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit.... Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology - some of it truly subtle - in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)" (H. Allen Orr, Professor of Biology, University of Rochester, in The New York Review of Books)
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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!

Thought Provocing

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If you really want to learn about Evolution without stuyding it, this is the book for you, written exactly for you. It´s fantastic how deep the insight of Dawkins goes. You ever read a Meme? This guy invented the idea - and the Name - of it.

A classic

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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

The meme about the gene

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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.

Ein Klassiker unter den Darwinisten

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Sums up live in a nutshell.
An intriguing new way to look at the world.

Ingenious

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