The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

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Bolinda Publishing
04 October 2011

Humanities; Popular science; Evolution

The Selfish Gene caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was first published in 1976. Its vivid rendering of a gene's eye view of life, in lucid prose, gathered together the strands of thought about the nature of natural selection into a conceptual framework with far-reaching implications for our understanding of evolution.

Time has confirmed its significance. Intellectually rigorous, yet written in non-technical language, The Selfish Gene is widely regarded as a masterpiece of science writing and its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.

By: Richard Dawkins
Read by: Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 307g
ISBN: 9781455856350
ISBN 10: 1455856355
Publication Date: 04 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Selfish Gene

'Dawkins first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit ... Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology - some of it truly subtle - in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)' -- H. Allen Orr, Professor of Biology, University of Rochester, in The New York Review of Books 'This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' -- W. D. Hamilton, Science 'Learned, witty, and very well written ... exhilaratingly good.' -- Sir Peter Medawar, The Spectator