THE SELFISH GENE

As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Profe ssor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and i n which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not on ly brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimul ating wh...[Llegir més]