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The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy is a 2009 book by Fern Elsdon-Baker about the history of evolutionary theory, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Dawkins builds upon George C. Williams's book Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966), which argued that altruism is not based upon group benefit per se, [4] but results from selection that occurs "at the level of the gene mediated by the phenotype" [5] and that any selection at the group level occurred only under rare circumstances. [6]
Dawkins prefers to model ancestry in terms of genes flowing through a river of time. An ancestor gene flows down the river either as perfect replicas of itself or as slightly mutated descendant genes. Dawkins fails to explicitly contrast ancestor organism and descendant organisms against ancestor genes and descendant genes in this chapter. But ...
Nice Guys Finish First (BBC Horizon television series) is a 1986 documentary by Richard Dawkins which discusses selfishness and cooperation, arguing that evolution often favors co-operative behaviour, and focusing especially on the tit for tat strategy of the prisoner's dilemma game. The film is approximately 50 minutes long and was produced by ...
Compensation can come socially, financially and in many other ways. Compensation can be a factor in work motivation. [7] Along with compensation in rewarding work through financial compensation, compensation through the failure and success of goals create motivation. Whether or not people respond well to failure is an important factor of ...
Jon Gosselin has gotten engaged, and one of his daughters celebrated the moment. The former “Jon & Kate Plus 8” star and father of eight proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Stephanie ...
Nick Lachey is opening up about past hurts.. Speaking to a contestant on season three of The Ultimatum, released on Netflix on Wednesday, Dec. 4, the host, 51, said he understands the pain of ...
The boy’s mother was knocked under the cab and the still-spinning wheel was on top of the kid’s leg, a tourist visiting from Oregon told ABC 7.. The tourist and others nearby then dropped what ...