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The selfish gene

  • Richard Dawkins,
  • Lalla Ward Richard Dawkins

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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 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. 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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  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Genetics
  • Sociobiology
  • Behavior genetics
  • Genetica
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  • Natural selection
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  • Génétique animale
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  • 42.21 evolution
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  • Origin of species
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  • non fiction
  • biology
  • essay
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  • SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
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  • Genetic Selection
  • Behavioral Genetics
  • Animal genetics
  • Animal behavior
  • Genetics, behavioral
  • Selection, genetic
  • Qh437 .d38 2006
  • 2006 f-119
  • Qu 475 d271s 2006
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About the authors

  • Richard Dawkins

    born 26 March 1941

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  • Lalla Ward Richard Dawkins

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    Brilliance Audio

    Apr 15, 2014

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    Paladin/Granada

    1978

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    1978

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    Kuzey Yayinlari

    Nov 07, 2014

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Springer London, Limited

2014

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    SALVAT

    2006

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    Salvat

    1985

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    Spektrum Akademischer Verlag

    Aug 02, 1994

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    Contact

    1986

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    9. bs.

    TU BI TAK

    2007

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    Seoul: Eulyoo

    Apr 24, 2006

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    Oxford University Press

    Aug 01, 2016

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    Oxford University Press

    1976

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    New ed.

    Oxford University Press

    1999

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    30th anniversary ed.

    Oxford University Press

    2006

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    30th Anniversary Edition

    Oxford University Press, USA

    March 23, 2006

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    Oxford University Press

    1976

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    Oxford University Press, USA

    April 24, 2006

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    New ed.

    Oxford University Press

    1989

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    Oxford University Press

    1978

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    Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

    May 1, 1996

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    Spektrum Akademischer Verlag

    October 19, 2006

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    1. Aufl. 1978. Nachdruck edition

    Springer

    September 30, 1988

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    Odile Jacob

    March 7, 2003

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    Odile Jacob

    December 31, 1995

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    Salvat

    1994

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    Prószyński i S- ka

    2012

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    Oxford University Press

    2007-01-01

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    Oxford University Press

    2006

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    COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS - GRUPO CIA DAS LETRAS, Companhia das Letras

    Jun 17, 2007

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    Spektrum Akademischer Verlag GmbH

    2014

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    Springer London, Limited

    2013

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    al-Ṭabʻah 1.

    Dār al-Sāqī

    2009

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    Itatiaia Limitada

    1979

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    BBC

    1976

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    Scientific American

    2004

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    Oxford University Press

    1976

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    Scientific Book Club

    1978

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    1978

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    Dunod

    December 1, 1997