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The Selfish Gene

40th Anniversary edition
Einband grossThe Selfish Gene
ISBN/GTIN
CHF21.50
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Produkt

KlappentextThe 40th anniversary edition of the million copy international bestseller, with a new epilogue from the author. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, this classic exposition of evolutionary thought, widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, stimulated whole new areas of research.
ZusatztextRichard Dawkins' magnificent introduction to the world of popular science writing ... Punchy, elegant, self-righteous, devotional (at least in a Dawinian way), it showed that genetics was absorbing, challenging and important
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-19-878860-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartonierter Einband
ProduktionslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum09.06.2016
ReiheOxford Landmark Science
Seiten496 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 131 mm, Höhe 196 mm, Dicke 37 mm
Gewicht433 g
Illustrationen9 black and white images
BZ-Nr.19912187

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction to 30th anniversary edition

Preface to 1989 2nd edition

Foreword to 1976 1st edition

Preface to 1976 1st edition

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

Epilogue to 40th anniversary edition

Endnotes

Reviews from earlier editions

Updated bibliography

Index and key to bibliographymehr

Autor

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.
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