The selfish gene

A$950 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1976. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (very light handling marks), pp. xii; 224, internally clean with no inscriptions, marks or foxing, not price clipped, a fine copy. First edition of the groundbreaking work by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins which posits a gene-centred basis for evolution, in essence the more genes that are shared between two individuals, the more likely it is they will cooperate together. Hugely popular at the time of publication and in print ever since, The Selfish Gene is seen as an extension of Darwin s theory of evolution. Famously, it introduced the term meme for a unit of cultural evolution analogous to the gene.

• Binding: Hardcover

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