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The Selfish Gene [1st Ed]
by Dawkins, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Excellent/Excellent
- ISBN 10
- 019857519X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575191
- Seller
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Adelaide , South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Excellent/Excellent. Genuine first printing of one of the most influential science books of the 20th Century. First Printing [Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976]; xii, 224 pages; black cloth, gold titling to spine, corners slightly bumped, minor foxing to prelims, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket. Genuine First Edition [UK printing] of one of the most influential science books of the 20th Century. Jacket illustration from painting by Desmond Morris. ISBN: 0-19-857519-X / 019857519X
Synopsis
The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes.
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- Bookseller
- ORCHARD BOOKSHOP
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2820
- Title
- The Selfish Gene [1st Ed]
- Author
- Dawkins, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Excellent
- Jacket Condition
- Excellent
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 019857519X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575191
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Adelaide, Adelaide Arcade, biology, classic, classic books, evolution, first edition, genetics, history, orchard bookshop, science
- X weight
- 0 kg
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