The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition
Richard Dawkins
Mar 2006 · Oxford University Press
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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. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today.
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September 7, 2012
I just bought the book from Google Play and the spelling (OCR?) errors are too numerous to ignore. Considering that the ebooks cost just as much as a paperback I would expect a similar level of editorial competence.
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Ok but everything in this book is mental speculation. Every machine in the material world has an operator, just becuase Dawkins lacks knowledge about the material world does not mean that an operator does not exist. We have to understand that we have imperfect senses,e.g. go to a room and turn the lights of and you cannot even see your own hands. With these imperfect senses seeing God is impossible therefore the scriptures say that we need sprituel eyes to see God, And to get sprituel eyes is by chnating; Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare--Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
A book that proves the existence of God, pocket book costs aroun 2 dollars is called Life Comes from Life by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
ALSO The real meaning of life , the absolute truth can be found in The Bhagavad Gita as it is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Read the books I mentioned and judge by yourself
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May 6, 2010
Quite a new perspective on how genes control our instincts and habbits. Extending the theory of darwin and giving an explanation of things earlier were less understood..
About the author
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 iThe Extended Phenotype/i (1982) and its sequel iThe Blind Watchmaker/i (1986), iRiver Out of Eden/i (1995), iClimbing Mount Improbable/i (1996), iUnweaving the Rainbow/i (1998), iA Devil's Chaplain/i (2004) and iThe Ancestor's Tale/i (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.
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