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.
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...
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《自私的基因》是理查德•道金斯撰写的一本关于进化的书,1976年出版。这本书以乔治•C•威廉姆斯的著作《适应与自然选择》中提出的主要理论为基础。道金斯采用“自私的基因”这个说法,是为了表达以基因为中心的进化观,以区别于以生物个体和群体为关注点的进化观,这是...
评分原来prisoners' dilemma这里也有提到,还有nice people finish first的说法
评分Dawkins太雄辩了。
评分补了遍英文版,比起自私的基因,meme概念更有趣、
评分达尔文演化论很精辟的一本经典。不过看了以后,就觉得神马亲情那些都是浮云,不过是在基因的“自私”繁殖欲望下,为了保持自己的延续,而演变出的一种机制而已。所以人类也没别要把自己的繁殖和父母地位看得那么神圣。书中提出的人体是复杂的器官混合体,器官又是复杂的细胞混合体,都是基因们为了共通的延续利益而组合到一起,是个有趣的论点。那病毒大概是融合不成被驱逐出境的个体了,哇卡卡。
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 > <
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