The Selfish Gene

by RichardDawkins (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.97

  This million-copy bestseller is universally acclaimed and translated into over twenty languages. The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius. - New York Times. This important book could hardly be more exciting. - The Economist. Learned, witty, and very well written...exhilaratingly good. - Spectator. The reader will come away with a clear understanding of kin selection, evolutionary stable strategies, and evolutionary theories of animal behaviour. This is a considerable achievement. - THES. The exciting theories and their wide implications are explained with clarity, wit and enthusiasm. - Peter Parker, Sunday Times. This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution. W. D. Hamilton, Science. The presentations are remarkable for their clarity and simplicity, intelligible to any schoolchild, yet so little condescending as to be a pleasure to the professional. - American Scientist.

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $21.81

  The 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.