By Richard Dawkins
How did the replication bomb we name ”life” start and the place on the earth, or relatively, within the universe, is it heading? Writing with attribute wit and a capability to elucidate complicated phenomena (the ny occasions defined his kind as ”the type of technology writing that makes the reader suppose like a genius”), Richard Dawkins confronts this historical secret.
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First, in any kind of animal, sisters and brothers have a high probability of sharing copies of the same genes. Second, it is the environment, not the genes, that determines whether an individual termite, say, becomes a reproducer or a sterile worker. All termites contain genes capable of turning them into sterile workers under some environmental conditions, reproducers under other conditions. The reproducers pass on copies of the very same genes that make the sterile workers help them to do so.
Thousands of our ancestors' contemporaries failed in all these respects, but not a single solitary one of our ancestors failed in any of them. These statements are blindingly obvious, yet from them much follows: much that is curious and unexpected, much that explains and much that astonishes. All these matters will be the subject of this book. Since all organisms inherit all their genes from their ancestors, rather than from their ancestors' unsuccessful contemporaries, all organisms tend to possess successful genes.
Phonographs and tape recorders-and until recently most telephones-use analog codes. Compact disks, computers, and most modern telephone systems use digital codes. In an analog telephone system, continuously fluctuating waves of pressure in the air (sounds) are transduced into correspondingly fluctuating waves of voltage in a wire. A phonograph record works in a similar way: the wavy grooves cause a stylus to vibrate, and the movements of the stylus are transduced into corresponding fluctuations in voltage.