The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) - Softcover

Dawkins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192880519 ISBN 13: 9780192880512

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1999

Synopsis

By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene

'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.'

Science

'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort'

John Maynard Smith, London Review of Books

'Dawkins is quite incapable of being boring this characteristically brilliant and stimulating book is original and provocative throughout, and immensely enjoyable.'

G. A. Parker, Heredity

'The extended phenotype is certainly a big idea and it is pressed hard in dramatic language.'

Sydney Brenner, Nature

'Richard Dawkins, our most radical Darwinian thinker, is also our best science writer.'

Douglas Adams

'Dawkins is a superb communicator. His books are some of the best books ever written on science.'

Megan Tressider, Guardian

'Dawkins is a genius of science popularization.'

Mark Ridley, The Times

About this title

Review:

The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene ... he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort (John Maynard Smith, LRB)

This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days. (Science)

Book Description:

Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192880519
• ISBN 13: 9780192880512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336