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...
看瞭這本書纔知道我不過隻是基因們的一個生存機器、一個拷貝,我那一萬小時倒計時也隻是基因們提前編製的程序的一個不足為道的執行。但是,知道我這個生存機器也是宏大漫長的基因戰爭曆史的一個片斷,我又覺得這有“make a dent”的浪漫之意。Go gene! 給我滅瞭其它基因!
评分Some allegories are so shoddy they're better off gone, and Mr Dawkins does whine too much at times.
评分原來prisoners' dilemma這裏也有提到,還有nice people finish first的說法
评分原來meme這個詞是在此書中誕生的!(大概
评分其實一直沒看完,總覺得哪裏不對勁,昨天看到一個詞豁然開朗,這根本就是亞裏士多德式的目的論!!給無生命的東西人為填上意識,即使能自圓其說但是無視客觀事實和論證也就沒有說服力
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