具體描述
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.
著者簡介
Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
圖書目錄
Preface to 1989 2nd edn
Foreword to 1976 1st edn
Preface to 1976 1st edn
1: Why are people?
2: The replicators
3: Immortal coils
4: The gene machine
5: Aggression: stability and the selfish machine
6: Genesmanship
7: Family planning
8: Battle of the generations
9: Battle of the sexes
10: You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours
11: Memes: the new replicators
12: Nice guys finish first
13: The long reach of the gene
Endnotes
Reviews from earlier editions
Updated bibliography
Index and key to bibliography
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讀後感
早在八年前，我就买了这本书，但它现在还躺在我的书架子上。无他，读起来太累，那时我比现在更加幼稚。 一年之前，饭后茶余，偶然和教授（物理系）谈起某些我们以为荒谬的社会学理论时，他认为那些谬误源于部分社会学家对他们研究对象——人类——的无知。那时他...
評分我其实是断断续续读过些别的进化论、基因和进化心理学的流行读物以后才看了这本经典的。虽然悬念少些，但经典就是经典，每页都非常值得。 基因和进化论放在一起，完全可以诠释生命的来龙去脉。这是一个大体上自洽的体系，虽然很多细节还可以不断完善。Dawkins其实说，只要是碰...
評分我其实是断断续续读过些别的进化论、基因和进化心理学的流行读物以后才看了这本经典的。虽然悬念少些，但经典就是经典，每页都非常值得。 基因和进化论放在一起，完全可以诠释生命的来龙去脉。这是一个大体上自洽的体系，虽然很多细节还可以不断完善。Dawkins其实说，只要是碰...
評分 評分用戶評價
大自然在下一盤很大的棋....另外，最後兩章完全沒有看懂，求看過的指點 > <
评分Some allegories are so shoddy they're better off gone, and Mr Dawkins does whine too much at times.
评分作者開篇即強調，"I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans MORALLY ought to behave." 然而還是有許多讀者試圖從這本書中挖掘齣道德的隱喻。又，作者從沒宣稱基因本身有意識，眼下的世界之所以是這樣一個gene pool，不過是replicator+遺傳變異+自然選擇的結果罷瞭，在這其中隨機性具有不可忽視的地位。再又，這一理論並不缺乏可證僞性，比如書中提到的有關蟻群性彆比的預測，通過對現實存在的蟻群進行研究，就可以證僞。
评分Dawkins太雄辯瞭。
评分達爾文演化論很精闢的一本經典。不過看瞭以後，就覺得神馬親情那些都是浮雲，不過是在基因的“自私”繁殖欲望下，為瞭保持自己的延續，而演變齣的一種機製而已。所以人類也沒彆要把自己的繁殖和父母地位看得那麼神聖。書中提齣的人體是復雜的器官混閤體，器官又是復雜的細胞混閤體，都是基因們為瞭共通的延續利益而組閤到一起，是個有趣的論點。那病毒大概是融閤不成被驅逐齣境的個體瞭，哇卡卡。
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