Introduction to 3rd edn; Preface to 1989 2nd edn; Foreword to 1976
1st edn; Preface to 1976 1st edn
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
Endnotes; Reviews from earlier editions; Updated bibliography;
Index and key to bibliography
Anniversary Edition. Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007
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.
Dawkins's 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, New York Review of Books The Selfish Gene is a classic. Robin McKie, The Observer A genuine cultural landmark of our time. The Independent Review from previous edition The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius. New York Times
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