Selfish Gene
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Bindung: Gebundene Ausgabe
Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation: 576.5
EAN: 9780199291144
Ausgabe: 30 Anv
ISBN: 0199291144
Label: Oxford University Press
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Anzahl Seiten: 384
Erscheinungsdatum: März 16, 2006
Herausgeber: Oxford University Press
Studio: Oxford University Press
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Produktbeschreibung:Amazon.com:Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of
The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or
memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings.
--Rob Lightner
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Dawkins writes that "the argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes" (p.xxi) and that "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" (p.xxi). Yet, according to him, this book "is not science fiction; it is science" (p.xxi)!
Dawkins contrives to overlook the twin discoveries that:
1. the observable traits of organisms are mostly conditioned by the interactions of many genes;
2. most genes have multiple effects on many of these traits.
Dawkins transfers characteristics with which he is familiar from human behaviour on the macro-level to the inanimate components, "genes", of which we are physically constructed. He then proceeds to argue that these impersonal entities, which he imagines to possess characteristically human traits, infallibly generate the same unpleasant traits in human behaviour on the macro-level. So he writes: "The gene ...
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This is one of those books that make perfect sense. It is like somewhere deep inside you already knew things were the way Dawkins describes them, but "The Selfish Gene" perfectly presents, elaborates and systemizes those ideas. A great reading which i highly recommend for everyone.
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Mit diesem Buch, das zum ersten Mal im Jahre 1976 erschienen ist, hat Richard Dawkins seinen Ruf als einer der maßgeblichen Evolutionsbiologen und als einer der besten Wissenschaftsautoren aller Zeiten begründet. Seit 1995 hat er die - eigens für ihn geschaffene - Charles Simonyi Professur For The Public Understanding of Science an der Oxford University inne. Selbstverständlich ist er Mitglied der Royal Society und der Royal Society of Literature. Ebenso selbstverständlich hat er zahlreiche Preise und Auszeichnungen erhalten: 1987 den Royal Society of Literature Award und den Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, 1990 den Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, 1994 den Nakayama Prize, 1997 den International Cosmos Prize for Achievement in Human Science, 2001 den Kistler Prize und 2005 den Shakespeare Prize. Wann endlich wird er den Nobelpreis bekommen?
Schon allein das Inhaltsverzeichnis der 1976-er Ausgabe zu lesen war ein Vergnügen:
1. Why are people?
2. The replicators
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"Replicators began not merely to exist, but to construct for themselves containers, vehicles for their continued existence. The replicarors that survived were the ones that built survival machines for themselves to live in" (19).
Dawkins These ist also, dass die Replikatoren, sprich die Gene, Maschinen für ihr eigenes Überleben konstruiert haben. Maschinen wie einfache Zellen, Pflanzen, Tiere und den Menschen.
In klarer Sprache für ein Laienpublikum geschrieben und dennoch auf einem intellektuell atemberaubenden Niveau, beantwortet der Oxfordprofessor die Fragen, die uns alle umtreibt: Woher kommen wir? Was ist der Sinn des Lebens?
Als einer der leidenschaftlichsten Kämpfer für die Evolutionslehre analysiert und bewertet Richard Dawkins die überwältigende Menge an Indizien und Beweisen, die belegen, dass wir das nicht-zielgerichtete Produkt eines auf natürlicher Auslese beruhenden Prozesses sind. Das wiederum bedeutet aber eben nicht, dass der Mensch ein rein ...
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Recommending this book is like carrying coals to Newcastle. Many books about evolution, sociobiology and etology make references to it. The modern theories of evolution are explained in a comprehensible way, the book is interesting right from the start up to the end. There are many intersections between evolution and other special fields like etology and economics (game theory). The book is and will remain part of a basic of science literature destined for the general public.
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