Selfish Gene, The

Description

• Commemorative anniversary edition of this landmark work which powerfully encapsulates a new way of looking at living things - a gene`s eye view of life.
• The original edition was published 30 years ago - this book remains a classic work in the development of evolutionary thought, and its influence is undiminished today.
• Contains a newly written introduction by Richard Dawkins, the original prefaces including Robert Trivers` 1976 foreword, and extracts from a selection of early reviews.

New to this edition

• A new introduction by Richard Dawkins
• Enlarged review section, with extracts from a range of early reviews, highlighting the book`s importance and influence
• Includes prefaces and forewords from previous editions

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.

Readership: Popular science readership; anyone with an interest in the natural sciences, evolution, and genetics.

Contents

Introduction to 30th edn

Preface to 1989 edn

Foreword to 1976 edn

Preface to 1976 edn

1. Why are people?

2. The replicators

3. Immortal coils

4. The gene machine

5. Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

6. Genesmanship

7. Family planning

8. Battle of the generations

9. Battle of the sexes

10. You scratch my back, I`ll ride on yours

11. Memes: the new replicators

12. Nice guys finish first

13. The long reach of the gene

Endnotes

Reviews from earlier editions

Updated bibliography

Index and key to bibliography