The Extended Selfish Gene (including two key chapters fron The Extended Phenotype)

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0198788789 / ISBN 13: 9780198788782

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016

About this Item

8vo, 548 pp., First printing of the 40th anniversary edition.

Seller Inventory # 114612

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Extended Selfish Gene (including two key chapters fron The Extended Phenotype)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198788789
• ISBN 13: 9780198788782
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology

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Synopsis

Along with the two extra chapters, The Extended Selfish Gene includes a new epilogue to The Selfish Gene from the author which highlights the relevance of the gene's eye view to evolutionary biology today.

About the Author

Professor Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential science writers and communicators of our generation. He was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he held from 1995 until 2008, and is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford.

His bestselling books include The Selfish Gene (1976), The Extended Phenotype (1982) and its sequel The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2004), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), and The God Delusion (2007).

He has won many literary and scientific awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science, the 1997 International Cosmos Prize, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest in 2009.