The million copy international bestseller, 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
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.
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 which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we
think.