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. 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. They are inherently selfish in that they only care about their own survival and the survival of its copies. Replicators, the units that evolve, are genes. He claims that organisms are survival shells for the replicators within us. 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 In his book, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins argues for the gene as the basic unit of evolution. Description 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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