Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and Fellow of New College, Oxford.
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.
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...
評分初读此书,读起来是很费一番功夫的。但最终读下来之后,不禁让人有再次阅读的冲动。从没想过一本书会彻底地颠覆我对事物重构的看法,不得不称赞作者的学识渊博与科学求知。 本书对我最大的震撼就是:人的本能注定是自私自利的。看似我们所有无私的举动都掺杂着自私的动机。因...
評分 評分在 kindle 上看完了. 这本书(注: 30周年纪念版新增了两章, 当时没看)有3部分: 基因(DNA 片段)的世界观 - 基因的生存策略(Evolutionarily Stable Strategy) - 文化的类基因性. 总的来说能提供对世界更深一层的视角, 看到平常社会视角之下, 更底层的东西. 1. 基因的世界观 由来:...
評分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。
评分原來prisoners' dilemma這裏也有提到,還有nice people finish first的說法
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