- The Commemorative anniversary edition of this landmark work which powerfully encapsulates a new way of looking at living things – a gene's eye view
- With a new epilogue by Richard Dawkins, discussing the continuing relevance of - --these ideas in evolutionary biology today
- Completely re-typeset, to make the book even more attractive to read
- Originally published in 1976, this book remains a classic work in the development of evolutionary thought, and its influence is undiminished today
- Includes the original prefaces including Robert Trivers' 1976 foreword, and extracts from a selection of early reviews
- Part of the Oxford Landmark Science range: 'must-read' modern science and big ideas, which have shaped the way we think
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.
Professor Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential science writers and communicators of our generation. He was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he held from 1995 until 2008, and is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford. His bestselling books include The Extended Phenotype (1982) and its sequel The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2004), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), and The God Delusion (2007). He has won many literary and scientific awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science, the 1997 International Cosmos Prize, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest in 2009.
2012.02.27 【经典推荐】《自私的基因》 久闻大名的一本书,遗憾的是,现在才真正读完。大概是很久没有看这样的书了,觉得非常好看,两天的时间忍不住一气读完。 一直以来我有一个巨大的野心,我知道这个野心过于巨大,可能在我的有生之年都无法完成。不是的,不是的,不是要日...
评分 评分 评分 评分听过 amazon audible挺好用的 就是旁边不能有人跟你说话 不然又要倒回去听
评分好比粒子物理把粒子看做世界的基本组成来解释这个世界,本书以gene/replicator作为世界的基本组成。但个人还是更关心是比replicator更foundamental的物理世界。
评分一般来说,一本书能让我精神高潮一次就不错了,可是这本书,至少三次!
评分至今为止对我影响力最大的一本书(因为我近年读书真的少)
评分好比粒子物理把粒子看做世界的基本组成来解释这个世界,本书以gene/replicator作为世界的基本组成。但个人还是更关心是比replicator更foundamental的物理世界。
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