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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Paperback, 2016)

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Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. Author: Richard Dawkins. Title: The Selfish Gene. Book Series: Oxford Landmark Science.

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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 t 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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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0198788606
ISBN-13
9780198788607
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221855364

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Weight
456g
Height
196mm
Width
131mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
37mm
Series Title
Oxford Landmark Science
Content Note
9 Black and White Images
Author Biography
Professor Richard Dawkins 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.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Author(s)
Richard Dawkins
Date of Publication
09/06/2016
Subject
Popular Science
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Edition Statement
40th Anniversary Edition
Genre
Popular Science
Country of Publication
United Kingdom