DAWKINS, Richard.
The Selfish Gene.
New York: Oxford University , 1976.
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First American editon of the author's classic work. Signed by both Richard Dawkins and Robert Treviers, who wrote the foreword. Additionally signed by Desmond Morris, the illustrator of the dust jacket and also author of the classic work "The Naked Ape". Near fine in an excellent dust jacket showing only light wear to the spine tips. A very sharp copy.
The Selfish Gene was extremely popular when first published by Oxford University Press in 1976. It created "a silent and almost immediate revolution in biology" (Grafen and Ridley, 2009), and it has sold over a million copies and has been translated into more than 25 languages. " Best said by the New York Review of Books, it "was a smash hit...Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology-some of it truly subtle-in stunningly lucid prose." In 1976, Arthur Cain, one of Dawkins's tutors at Oxford in the 1960s, called it a "young man's book." Dawkins received the compliment well and explained that it was allusion to A.J. Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic (Dawkins, 2006). "This important book could hardly be more exciting," said The Economist, and "[t]he presentations are remarkable for their clarity and simplicity, intelligible to any schoolchild, yet so little condescending as to be a pleasure to the professional" (American Scientist).
The Selfish Gene.
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