- Title:
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The Selfish Gene
- Written by:
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Richard Dawkins
- Read by:
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Richard Dawkins; Lalla Ward
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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14
- Duration:
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16 hours 22 minutes
- Published:
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October 04 2011
- Available Date:
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March 01 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781455856350
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it.
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.
'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