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The Selfish Gene

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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.

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ISBN9780199291144
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Date05/18/06
Pages384

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  • akku
    akku

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    This book is not the easiest to read. It's non-fiction, and it finishes where Darwin couldn't continue. Dawkins tell us where life on our planet and life everywhere in the universe originates, how the most important evolutionary steps were (mostly methods to improve the evolutionary engine), and what this means for organisms and their evolutionary programmed behavioural patterns, and the game theoretic implications that can be observed in multitudes of examples Dawkins shows us. As a philosophically interested person, the contents of this book are undeniably fundamental for understanding life. I would have given 5 stars, but I think it's a bit too hard to digest to really deserve this - as many people will want to understand the content but will be unable to actually get through the book. But, if you can make it, I believe it's worth it.

    Feb 15, 2023

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