The Selfish Gene

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The 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction to 30th anniversary edition (p. vii)
• Preface to second edition (p. xv)
• Foreword to first edition (p. xix)
• Preface to first edition (p. xxi)
• 1 Why are people? (p. 1)
• 2 The replicators (p. 12)
• 3 Immortal coils (p. 21)
• 4 The gene machine (p. 46)
• 5 Aggression: stability and the selfish machine (p. 66)
• 6 Genesmanship (p. 88)
• 7 Family planning (p. 109)
• 8 Battle of the generations (p. 123)
• 9 Battle of the sexes (p. 140)
• 10 You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours (p. 166)
• 11 Memes: the new replicators (p. 189)
• 12 Nice guys finish first (p. 202)
• 13 The long reach of the gene (p. 234)
• Endnotes (p. 267)
• Updated bibliography (p. 333)
• Index and key to bibliography (p. 345)
• Extracts from reviews (p. 353)