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The causes of molecular evolution
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ISBN: 0195068831 0195092716 Year: 1991 Volume: vol 2 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,


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Wonderlijk leven : over toeval en evolutie
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ISBN: 9025468713 Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam Contact


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A patent on life: ownership of plant and animal research
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ISBN: 0889365954 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ottawa, Ont.

The selfish gene
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ISBN: 0192177737 0192860925 9780192860927 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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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 revised edition of Dawkins' fascinating book contains two new chapters. One, entitled "Nice Guys Finish First," demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. The other new chapter, entitled "The Long Reach of the Gene," which reflects the arguments presented in Dawkins' The Extended Phenotype, clarifies the startling view that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they dwell and manipulate other individuals and even the world at large. Containing a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world, the second edition once again drives home the fact that truth is stranger than fiction.


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Genes in Ecology : the 33rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society University of East Anglia
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ISBN: 0632034688 0632035048 9780632035045 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Blackwell Scientific publ

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