The Extended Selfish Gene

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As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, stimulated whole new areas of research. This extended edition includes a new epilogue from the author and two key chapters from The Extended Phenotype.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to 30th anniversary edition

Preface to 1989 2nd edition

Foreword to 1976 1st edition

Preface to 1976 1st edition

1: Why are people?

2: Â The replicators

3: Immortal coils

4: The gene machine

5: Aggression: stability and the selfish machine

6: Genesmanship

7: Family planning

8: Battle of the generations

9: Battle of the sexes

10: You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours

11: Memes: the new replicators

12: Nice guys finish first

13: The long reach of the gene

Epilogue to 40th anniversary edition

Â Endnotes

Reviews from earlier editions

Updated bibliography

Index and key to bibliography

Extracts from reviews

The Extended Phenotype opener

1: Genetic Determinism and Gene Selectionism

2: Constraints on Perfection

References

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. November 2016

Sprache

englisch

Untertitel

4th edition. Sprache: Englisch.

Auflage

4th edition

Seitenanzahl

592

Autor/Autorin

Richard Dawkins

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

gebunden

Gewicht

733 g

Größe (L/B/H)

223/141/53 mm

ISBN

9780198788782

Portrait

Richard Dawkins

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.

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