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The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition de Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition: Oxford Landmark Science

Autor Richard Dawkins
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Celebrating 50 years with a new anniversary edition, this critically acclaimed international bestseller has sold millions of copies and been translated into over 30 languages.Among the most influential and enduring science books of all time, The Selfish Gene is a classic in every sense of the word. Originally published in 1976, the book soon galvanized the biology community and fascinated a broad general readership. Professor Dawkins's gene's-eye view of evolution introduced a completely novel way of looking at survival. Fifty years later, The Selfish Gene still sparks fascination and debate among scientists and science-enthusiasts alike, inspiring new directions in research and fresh generations of young life scientists. First-time and returning readers will marvel at the timelessness and universality of this monumental work. In a new epilogue to the 50th anniversary edition, Professor Dawkins reflects on his signature publication and its enduring relevance and appeal. This edition also contains a new appendix, which sheds historical and personal light on the perpetual relevance of the 'selfish gene'. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
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ISBN-13: 9780198985389
ISBN-10: 019898538X
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 9 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 130 x 195 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:5th edition
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Landmark Science

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Dawkins's prose is lucid and powerful, his argument difficult to contend ... The Selfish Gene has attained its own literary and scientific immortality: as long as we study life, it will be read.
highly readable and entertaining ... exhilarating gene's-eye-view of life
Books about science tend to fall into two categories: those that explain it to lay people in the hope of cultivating a wide readership, and those that try to persuade fellow scientists to support a new theory, usually with equations. Books that achieve both changing science and reaching the public are rare. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) was one. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is another. From the moment of its publication 40 years ago, it has been a sparkling best-seller and a scientific game-changer
Richard Dawkins' magnificent introduction to the world of popular science writing ... Punchy, elegant, self-righteous, devotional (at least in a Darwinian way), it showed that genetics was absorbing, challenging and important
A genuine cultural landmark of our time.
This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.
Learned, witty, and very well written ... exhilaratingly good.
The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius.
The elegantly written The Selfish Gene has inspired multiple generations, explaining and embellishing the most beautiful idea of biology.
Richard Dawkins has an exceptional gift, not just to explain clearly but to bring out the marvel of the evolutionary process.
Richard Dawkins's clear exposition and sparkling prose destined The Selfish Gene to be a classic when it came out fifty years ago. Many of its terms made it into our cultural vocabulary, and it allowed millions to understand the details of how evolution works and gives rise to the amazing diversity of life. Fifty years on, this updated edition is welcome not only to discuss new developments and ideas, but as an antidote to many of the misconceptions about evolution that still persist. It will be welcomed by generations both old and new.
The Selfish Gene is as vivid, gripping, and relevant today as it was fifty years ago. Read it if you want to understand how evolution works.
The Selfish Gene stands as one of the best nonfiction books of the two centuries it straddles. Fifty years later, this masterpiece deserves new readers and old re-readers. It is lucid, witty, and stylish, and its ideas, though superficially familiar, are subtle and profound.
For fifty years, Dawkins has been the modern-day voice of Darwin, and The Selfish Gene will continue to play this role, educating and entertaining a wide readership about the powerful theory of evolution, as an explanation of the natural world, including ourselves.
You won't find a better explanation of the logic of natural selection than The Selfish Gene.
Dawkins's Selfish Gene variously startled, confronted, and sometimes disquieted its first readers, but in doing so educated them all, and has continued to educate readers to this day-not just in the science it explains with such elegance and clarity, but in the important philosophical implications that follow from it. It is a classic and should be required reading everywhere.

Notă biografică

Professor Richard Dawkins 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 now 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), The God Delusion (2007), The Magic of Reality (2011), and The Genetic Book of the Dead (2024).He has won numerous 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.