The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) - Softcover

Dawkins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192880519 ISBN 13: 9780192880512

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Dawkins is the first holder of Oxford's newly endowed Charles Simonyi Professorship of Public Understanding of Science. Born in Nairobi of British parents, Richard Dawkins was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel-prizewinning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. From 196769 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, then he returned to Oxford as University Lecturer (later Reader) and a Fellow of New College, before taking up his present position in 1995.

Richard Dawkins's bestselling books have played a significant role in the renaissance of science book publishing for a general audience. The Selfish Gene (1976; second edition 1989) was followed by The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). He has won many literary and scientific awards.

Review:

The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene ... he writes so clearly it could be understood by anyone prepared to make the effort John Maynard Smith, LRB This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days. Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192880519
• ISBN 13: 9780192880512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336