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The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).
- Richard Dawkins
- 1976
Publisher: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0-19-929114-4. 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 ...
Aug 1, 2016 · Listed as number 10 on The Guardian’s “100 best nonfiction books of all time”, Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene explores a “gene’s-eye view of evolution” in a re-imagining of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. He explains his thesis concisely in the first chapter:
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Sep 12, 2020 · The Selfish Gene (40th Anniversary Edition) The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by the biologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams 's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).
Oxford University Press, 2016 - Mathematics - 464 pages. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was...
Jan 1, 1976 · Richard Dawkins. 4.16. 179,137 ratings4,916 reviews. "The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was first published in 1976. Its vivid rendering of a gene's eye view of life, in lucid prose, gathered together the strands of thought about the nature of natural selection into a conceptual ...
Jan 27, 2016 · In retrospect: The Selfish Gene. Matt Ridley. Nature 529 , 462–463 ( 2016) Cite this article. 191k Accesses. 7 Citations. 867 Altmetric. Metrics. Matt Ridley reassesses Richard...
