Authors: Richard Dawkins
ISBN-13: 9780199291151, ISBN-10: 0199291152
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. Among his previous books are The Ancestor’s Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, and A Devil’s Chaplain. Dawkins lives in Oxford with his wife, the actress and artist Lalla Ward.
In this revised edition of his bestselling book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins demonstrates how cooperation can evolve even in a basically selfish world. Contains two new chapters and a wealth of remarkable new insights into the biological world.
1 | Why are people? | 1 |
2 | The replicators | 12 |
3 | Immortal coils | 21 |
4 | The gene machine | 46 |
5 | Aggression : stability and the selfish machine | 66 |
6 | Genesmanship | 88 |
7 | Family planning | 109 |
8 | Battle of the generations | 123 |
9 | Battle of the sexes | 140 |
10 | You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours | 166 |
11 | Memes : the new replicators | 189 |
12 | Nice guys finish first | 202 |
13 | The long reach of the gene | 234 |