The Extended Phenotype - The Gene as the Unit of Selection ***Signed by Author*** ***Signed by Professor James Durbin (Mathematician, Statistician and Econometrician)***

Dawkins, Richard

ISBN 10: 0716713586 / ISBN 13: 9780716713586

Published by W. H. Freeman and Company, Oxford and San Francisco, 1982

About this Item

First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to front and spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 307pp. Signed by Richard Dawkins in black ink to piece of paper pasted to title page. Also signed in black ink by Professor James Durbin, Mathematician, Statistician and Econometrician, 1923-2012. Not library copy, small indentation to front board, small white mark to rear dustjacket and spine. (52/4).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Extended Phenotype - The Gene as the Unit of Selection ***Signed by Author*** ***Signed by Professor James Durbin (Mathematician, Statistician and Econometrician)***
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman and Company, Oxford and San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716713586
• ISBN 13: 9780716713586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are "selfish" they have the capacity to effect the body of another animal, so revolutionizing our views of adaptation. Dawkins shows that some such revolution is logically necessary, as genes can be said to have extended phenotypes outside the body in which they sit. Other topics that the book examines include the theory of evolutionary stable strategies, the relationship between Darwinian and Lamarckian theories of general adaptation and the suggestion, first made in "The Selfish Gene", Dawkin's controversial first book, and also recently reopened by molecular biologists under the catchphrase "Selfish DNA", that some of the surplus DNA in eukaryotic genomes may be parasitic. In the final chapter the author returns to the individual organism as a phenomenon that needs explaining in its own right. Dawkin has also written "The Blind Watchmaker".

About the Author

About the Author Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of New College and Lecturer in Animal Behavior at Oxford University. He is the author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.