The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated
into over 25 languages.
As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become
a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a
gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent
units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their
replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not
only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized
the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of
research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today