OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Extended Selfish Gene

Pages are in wrong sequence . Can you please send me a book with the right sequence and take this one back. I was really looking forward to reading this book.

I read this 30 years ago, friend didn’t return it so I bought it again- yes reading again- like all good books, you get a new idea/ perspective!

Well, despite (as yet) not ever meeting Richard Dawkins, we are seemingly kindred spirits and the more of his words I read the more I am convinced! I actually came to his writing rather late but being well aware of his opinions and delivery through his various television appearances - his tomes do not disappoint - his command and breath of language impressive. I commend all his works and especially to anyone of a religious persuasion.

Amazing book. Read the following books in this order to get the complete picture: 1. Selfish gene 2. Extended phenotype 3. Origins of virtue

I already recieved the book and the service is quite good.

This is the '40th Anniversary' edition of the book ... but not exactly a new edition. It's a volume that actually contains the 2nd edition of the book, with revisions and the prefaces and forwards. It adds a new epilogue for this edition, as well as two chapters from a different book "The Extended Phenotype". Thus the new title "The Extended Selfish Gene". Having read the first edition 40 years ago, this re-read was somewhat nostalgic and a reminder of how controversial the original was. This was never a technical book on genetics, but an argument for an interpretation of the process of natural selection at the gene level. Many technical and popular reviewers at the time imposed some personal and wrong-headed interpretations to the meaning of the term 'selfish' gene, to which this edition is a counterargument. Perhaps the most interesting parts of the book are in fact the endnotes to each chapter, and should be read as noted when they occur. These provide more of the historical changes. Needless to say perhaps, but as the 'modern synthesis' provided a new context to Darwin's ideas when the gene was explored scientifically, the concept of the selfish gene has become even more important with the rigorous sequencing of the full genome of viruses, bacteria, higher organisms and humans, and the discovery of regulatory genetic elements. Nature continues to amaze ...