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The Selfish Gene
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The Selfish Gene Hardback - 2006

by Dawkins, Richard

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From the publisher

This is a million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and 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.

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Details

  • Title The Selfish Gene
  • Author Dawkins, Richard
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Publication date April 24, 2006
  • ISBN 9780199291144

About the author

Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and is a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

His bestselling books include iThe Extended Phenotype/i (1982) and its sequel iThe Blind Watchmaker/i (1986), iRiver Out of Eden/i (1995), iClimbing Mount Improbable/i (1996), iUnweaving the Rainbow/i (1998), iA Devil's Chaplain/i (2004) and iThe Ancestor's Tale/i (2004).

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, and the 1997 International Cosmos Prize.

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