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The Blind Watchmaker

The Blind Watchmaker

by Richard Dawkins

1990Natural selectionEvolution (Biology)EvolutionBiodiversityEvolution.
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Open Library

First lines

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

About this book

In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol. De eerstgenoemde als belichaming van het geloof in een voor ede mens onbekende doelgerichtheid van de natuur. Darwin als ontdekker van het principe van de natuurlijke selectie. Uiterst boeiend schrijft Dawkins over zijn pogingen Darwins evolutieleer met behulp van computers na te bootsen. Het kunstmatige landschap van de computer verschaft meer inzicht in de ontwikkeling van de genen, de belangrijkste bouwstenen van het leven. [(bron)][1] [1]: http://www.bol.com/nl/p/de-blinde-horlogemaker/1001004005445663/?country=BE

Themes & subjects

Natural selectionEvolution (Biology)EvolutionBiodiversityEvolution.Evolution. 0
First published 1990

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About the author

Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins

26 March 1941

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book *The Extended Phenotype*, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is wel…

Author

Richard Dawkins

First published

1990

Pages

368

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

28

Languages

English, Russian, Spanish

Publisher

Norton

ISBN

9780393993431

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