The Selfish Gene

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The Selfish Gene 30th Anniversary Edition with a new Introduction by the AuthorInheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel s work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that our genes build and maintain us in order to make genes That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven t thought of evolution in the same way since.Why are there miles and miles of unused DNA within each of our bodies Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers With a prophet s clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce of their own kind Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re evaluation of evolution He also introduced the concept of self reproducing ideas, or memes, which seemingly use humans exclusively for their propagation If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings Rob Lightner Free Download The Selfish Gene [ author ] Richard Dawkins [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr What some people seem to find hard to understand is that there s a part of you, in fact the most important part, that s immaterial and immortal Your body is really nothan a temporary shell for the immortal part, and houses it for a little while until it die...Didactic, patronizing, condescending and arguably neo intellectual twaddle I do not believe in a God, certainly not any God that s been conceived by man, but I also believe Richard Dawkins is a self satisfied thought Nazi who is as fundamental in his view of religion as any right wing minister Fundamentalists of all faiths scare me, and atheism is just as much a faith as any religion The existence or non existence of a God cannot be proven, nor can the existence or non existence of a soul, an Didactic, patronizing, condescending and arguably neo intellectual twaddle I do not believe in a God, certainly not any God that s been conceived by man, but I also believe Richard Dawkins is a self satisfied thought Nazi who is as fundamental in...Although I consider myself a Jesus loving, god fearing, creationist, I simply LOVE reading about evolution I m not sure what it is, but I find the whole concept, when explained by a lucid and accessible author, fascinating And Dawkins is nothing if not lucid and accessible He presents the topic and various questions and scientific controversies in a way that anybody with a willingness to pay attention can follow it Some of the chapters were a...500 13 500 13 I read the 30th anniversary edition of this book it is a true classic I note that there are over 48,000 ratings and 1,400 reviews of this book on Goodreads Richard Dawkins put an entirely original slant on Darwin s theory of natural selection The book has turned people around, to the understanding that the gene plays the single most central role in natural selection, rather than the individual organism Over the course of generations, evolution plays a role to ensure the survival of the ge I read the 30th anniversary edition of this book it is a true classic I note that there are over 48,000 ratings and 1,400 reviews of this book on Goodreads Richard Dawkins put an entirely original slant on Darwin s theory of natural selection The book has turned people around, to the understanding that the gene plays the single most central role in natural selection, rather than the individual organism Over the course of generations, evolution plays a role to ensure the survival of the genes, not the individual or the species.Although the book is 30 years old, it has stood the test of time There are a few passages primarily about computers that are 30 years out of date But the vast majority of the book seems to have held up quite well.Dawkins prose is very approachable by the layman There is a bare minimum of technical jargon quite different from most other books about genetics that I ve been reading in recent years Da...I m agnostic myself, so I m impartial, but Dawkins is so cynical, so against the idea that there isto us as individual human beings than just intelligent apes meant to give birth, grow old and die , that he seems almost, for lack of a better phrase, sociopathic or antisocial He leaves very little room for the profound depths of emotion, companionship, imagination, nostalgia or anything that goes against his view that we are just materialistic monkeys who won t matter to anyone a hundred I m agnostic myself, so I m impartial, but Dawkins is so cynical, so against the idea that there isto us as individual human beings than just intelligent apes meant to give birth, grow old and die , that he seems almost, for lack of a better phrase, sociopathic or antisocial He leaves very little room for the profound depths of emotion, companionship, imagination, nostalgia or anything that goes against his view that we are just materialistic monkeys who won t matter to anyone a hundred years from now I found him as a narrator of this book to be rather obnoxious and appalling, and I don t think he understands just how unique our minds and meanings to one another really are I don t think we are divine beings, but I don t think we are just animals, eith...Color me very impressed I can now see why this is considered to be one of those hugely popular science books I keep hearing about and the reason why Dawkins has become so widely known and or respected with or without his notoriety.Indeed, the pure science bits were pretty much awesome We, or at least I, have heard of this theory in other contexts before and none of it really comes as much surprise to see that genes, themselves, have evolved strategies that are exactly the same as Game Theory i Color me very impressed I can now see why this is considered to be one of those hu...One of the most important things I took from The Selfish Gene is an idea that I find a bit difficult to put into words Richard Dawkins is really good at crafting metaphors to describe scientific principles that on their own may be not be so interesting, or may be stubbornly inaccessible While his rhetoric may make conceptsaccessible and convenient to discuss, he openly warns that no metaphor is completely accurate Understanding that the metaphors must be viewed skeptically, he offers One of the most important things I took from The Selfi...If you are bored look up the Community Reviews, sort by 1 star They are very entertaining One of them as a uni professor advising a student to burn down the book store where they bought this book Then we have the creationists, then the person who thinks it is all a capitalist manifesto There are those who think he is arrogant, depraved, uses philistine language How can anyone be a creationist and not believe in dinosaurs and such Do they believe that the earth is flat Are they the If you are bored look up the Community Reviews, sort by 1 star They are very entertaining One of them as a uni professor advising a student to burn down the book store where they bought this book Then we have the creationists, then the person who thinks it is all a capitalist manifesto There are those who think he is arrogant, depraved, uses philistine language How can anyone be a creationist and not believe in dinosaurs and such Do they believe that the earth is flat Ar...

The Selfish Gene
  • English
  • 11 September 2017
  • Paperback
  • 360 pages
  • 0199291152
  • Richard Dawkins
  • The Selfish Gene