"A splendid example of how difficult scientific ideas can be explained by someone who understands them and is willing to take the trouble." The book remains an excellent way for those who have not been trained in evolution to understand modern arguments." "Dawkins demonstrates that complex, theoretical or mathematical ideas can be expressed rigorously, in plain English. "The exciting theories and their wide implications are explaned with clarity, wit and enthusiasm." "Learned, witty and very well written Exhilaratingly good." It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution." "This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. "The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius." "From the moment of its publication 40 years ago, it has been a sparkling best-seller and a scientific game-changer." Index and key to bibliography Customer Reviews Contentsĥ: Aggression: stability and the selfish machineġ0: You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. 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.
Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. 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. 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. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.Īs influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought.
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