The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
Published By: Oxford University Press, 1976
Genre: Nonfiction | Science & Technology
Page Count: 544 (Paperback)
Audiobook Length: 16 hours and 12 minutes
Audiobook Narrator: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
ISBN: 9780198788607
Publisher’s Description
The million-copy international bestseller is critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.
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 center 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.
This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews.
Oxford Landmark Science books are ‘must-read’ classics of modern science writing that have crystallized big ideas and shaped the way we think.
About the Author
Richard Dawkins, born on March 26, 1941, in Nairobi, Kenya, is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and author. Renowned for his advocacy of atheism and evolutionary science, Dawkins is best known for his influential book “The Selfish Gene” and his role in popularizing the gene-centered view of evolution.
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