The Selfish Gene

This is a million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and 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.

ISBN 0199291144   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780199291144 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 501 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780192860927 Publication date 16 Mar 2006   Height (mm) 196 Library of Congress 2006279005   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 576.82   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

1		Why are people?		1
2		The replicators		12
3		Immortal coils		21
4		The gene machine		46
5		Aggression : stability and the selfish machine		66
6		Genesmanship		88
7		Family planning		109
8		Battle of the generations		123
9		Battle of the sexes		140
10		You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours		166
11		Memes : the new replicators		189
12		Nice guys finish first		202
13		The long reach of the gene		234

'Thirty years on from its first publication, this classic work in the development of evolutionary thought remains as influential as ever.' Prospect

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