The Selfish Gene

TRAMA

In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. This anniversary edition retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters in the second edition, and a new Introduction by Dawkins.

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Why are people? 2 - The replicators 3 - Immortal coils 4 - The gene machine 5 - Aggression: stability and the selfish machine 6 - Genesmanship 7 - Family planning 8 - Battle of the generations 9 - Battle of the sexes 10 - You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours 11 - Memes: the new replicators 12 - Nice guys finish first 13 - The long reach of the gene

AUTORE

Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 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) and The Ancestor's Tale (2004). 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 Shakespeare Prize in 2005.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199291151
• Dimensioni: 196 x 25.0 x 129 mm Ø 283 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 384