具体描述
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.
作者简介
Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
目录信息
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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读后感
2012.02.27 【经典推荐】《自私的基因》 久闻大名的一本书，遗憾的是，现在才真正读完。大概是很久没有看这样的书了，觉得非常好看，两天的时间忍不住一气读完。 一直以来我有一个巨大的野心，我知道这个野心过于巨大，可能在我的有生之年都无法完成。不是的，不是的，不是要日...
评分2012.02.27 【经典推荐】《自私的基因》 久闻大名的一本书，遗憾的是，现在才真正读完。大概是很久没有看这样的书了，觉得非常好看，两天的时间忍不住一气读完。 一直以来我有一个巨大的野心，我知道这个野心过于巨大，可能在我的有生之年都无法完成。不是的，不是的，不是要日...
评分 评分1.看到第四章，一个明显错误，作者把人脑比为计算机、把基因比为外星人，这种逻辑的颠倒是非常滑稽的。任何研究过AI或者认识论的人都不会犯这种低级错误。 2.拟人化和还原论的隐喻弥散到全篇文章中，如果仔细去掉这些非精确的部分，我们就会发现作者时常自相矛盾。比如他说...
评分精华倒有一句：基因随机突变后有可能会打破原来的平衡点，达到新的平衡点时，基因因此存活下来，也就是新物种算是形成了。（当然，物种的化分只是遵守人类的思维（人类倾向于把同一物种的两个个体生下的后代规定为属于这种物种，这种自增长性使得科学家发现各种物种的数量满足...
用户评价
其实一直没看完，总觉得哪里不对劲，昨天看到一个词豁然开朗，这根本就是亚里士多德式的目的论！！给无生命的东西人为填上意识，即使能自圆其说但是无视客观事实和论证也就没有说服力
评分原来meme这个词是在此书中诞生的！（大概
评分大自然在下一盘很大的棋....另外，最后两章完全没有看懂，求看过的指点 > <
评分论证部分好罗嗦，而且一旦发现selfish gene这一观点无法证伪后，就感觉这本书再读下去没意思了。除了能提供一种全新的世界观之外，这书似乎也没什么特别的地方，当然也许是我不懂而已。最后，略不喜Dawkins的傲慢态度。
评分"扩张基因是进化的目的"与"维持种群或者个体为目的"的传统进化论观点在解释亲属间的利他行为、适当生育与抚养方面看不出太大的优劣之分，但当遭遇激进的新观点时，比如性别差异可能起源于同形配子偶然的大小差异，以至于其各自的"自私性"进化到"雌性提供更多营养，雄性更敏捷、数量多"的稳定策略，个体和种群的进化观点都不能解释。于是有更加激进的观点：基因也可看作共生关系、甚至线粒体与细胞也是共生关系，个体有本能的计算复制基因的倾向等等。不管怎么看，这都是一个完全全新的视角。
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