by Richard Dawkins · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199291151
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«The Selfish Gene» is Richard Dawkins's popular science essay, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (386 pages, in English).
Dawkins explains evolution from the gene's point of view, not the individual's: genes are the units of natural selection and organisms are vehicles that replicate them. The book addresses apparent altruism in animals and competition between genes, and introduces memes as cultural replicators.
This 30th-anniversary edition, published in 2006, includes a new introduction by Richard Dawkins, the original prefaces and prologue, and extracts from early reviews.
Suitable for the general public interested in evolution and biology, not only for specialists.
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995, he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
