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Genre/Form: | Dust jackets (Binding) Popular Work |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Dawkins |
ISBN: | 019857519X 9780198575191 |
OCLC Number: | 2681149 |
Description: | xi, 224 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Why are people -- The replicators -- Immortal coils -- The gene machine -- Aggression: stability and the selfish machine -- Genesmanship -- Family planning -- Battle of the generations -- Battle of the generations -- Battle of the sexes -- You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours -- Memes: the new replicators. |
Responsibility: | Richard Dawkins. |
Abstract:
This book tells of the selfish gene. A world of savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit. But what of the acts of apparent altruism in nature the bees who commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, for example? Professor Dawkins holds out the hope that our species has the power to rebel against the designs of the selfish gene.
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