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Readers widely credit The Selfish Gene with turning a complex subject into clear, vivid argumentation, offering a persuasive gene-centered view of evolution and memorable metaphors that make natural selection feel concrete. Many say it still reads contemporary despite its 1970s origin and note its influence, including the early framing of “memes.” Critiques focus on pacing and structure—sections feel stretched or repetitive, tangents are introduced then dropped, and some found the academic theorizing dry. The tone strikes a few as overconfident or condescending, with dated language (“man”) and era-bound references. Some felt its ideas are now so embedded in culture that little felt new, and a minority objected to the author’s views or treatment of faith.

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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.

As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.

This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.

Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.

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Title The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition
Author Richard Dawkins
Binding Paperback
Edition number 4th
Edition 4
Pages 496
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 2016-08-01
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780198788607 / 0198788606
Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.5 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 3.81 cm)
Category Science
Library of Congress subjects Sociobiology, Behavior genetics
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016933210
Dewey Decimal Code 576.82

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Richard Dawkins, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, is one of the most influential science writers and communicators of our generation. He was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he held from 1995 until 2008, and is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford. His bestselling books include The Extended Phenotype (1982) and its sequel The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2004), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), and The God Delusion (2007). He has won many literary and scientific awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science, the 1997 International Cosmos Prize, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest in 2009.

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