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Overview"By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are ""selfish"" they have the capacity to effect the body of another animal, so revolutionizing our views of adaptation. Dawkins shows that some such revolution is logically necessary, as genes can be said to have extended phenotypes outside the body in which they sit. Other topics that the book examines include the theory of evolutionary stable strategies, the relationship between Darwinian and Lamarckian theories of general adaptation and the suggestion, first made in ""The Selfish Gene"", Dawkin's controversial first book, and also recently reopened by molecular biologists under the catchphrase ""Selfish DNA"", that some of the surplus DNA in eukaryotic genomes may be parasitic. In the final chapter the author returns to the individual organism as a phenomenon that needs explaining in its own right. Dawkin has also written ""The Blind Watchmaker""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard DawkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford Paperbacks Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780192860880ISBN 10: 0192860887 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 01 October 1989 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780192880512 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsNecker cubes and buffaloes' genetic determinism and gene selectionism; constraints on perfection; arms races and manipulation; the active germ-line replicator; organisms, groups and memes - replicators or vehicles?; outlaws and modifiers; selfish DNA, jumping genes and a Lamarckian scare; an agony in five fits; the genetical evolution of animal artefacts; host phenotypes of parasite genes; action at a distance; rediscovering the organism.ReviewsAuthor InformationAbout the Author: Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of New College and Lecturer in Animal Behavior at Oxford University. He is the author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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