1. Necker Cubes and Buffaloes
2. Genetic Determinism and Gene Selectionism
3. Constraints on Perfection; 4. Arms Races and Manipulation
5. The Active Germ-Line Replicator
6. Organisms, Groups and Memes: Replicators or Vehicles?
7. Selfish Wasp or Selfish Strategy?
8. Outlaws and Modifiers
9. Selfish DNA, Jumping Genes, and a Lamarckian Scare
10. An Agony in Five Fits
11. The Genetic Evolution of Animal Artefacts
12. Host Phenotypes of Parasite Genes
13. Action at a Distance
14. Rediscovering the Organism
References; Afterword by Daniel Dennett; Glossary; Author Index;
Subject Index.
Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007
Richard Dawkins is the first holder of Oxford's newly endowed
Charles Simonyi Professorship of Public Understanding of Science.
Born in Nairobi of British parents, Richard Dawkins was educated at
Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel-prizewinning
ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 196769 he was an Assistant
Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, then he
returned to Oxford as University Lecturer (later Reader) and a
Fellow of New
College, before taking up his present position in 1995.
Richard Dawkins's bestselling books have played a significant role
in the renaissance of science book publishing for a general
audience. The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition 1989) was followed
by The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986),
River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). He has won many literary and
scientific awards.
The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene ... he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort John Maynard Smith, LRB This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days. Science
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