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The Selfish Gene
by Dawkins, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 019857519X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575191
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About This Item
E-306, E-340: Oxford University Press, USA. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford University Press, New York. 1976. 224 pgs. First Edition/First Printing (US). DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .
Synopsis
The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976. It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined the term "selfish gene" as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection based on genes.
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- Last Exit Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64138
- Title
- The Selfish Gene
- Author
- Dawkins, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 019857519X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198575191
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- E-306, E-340
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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