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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition | Richard Dawkins
The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and 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.
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Leftcoastzen
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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#MarchMagic #AboutScience A classic (I‘m told) that has been on my TBR for years !

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 👍🏻 2y
AmyG How relevant now. 🤣 (edited) 2y
Eggs Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻 2y
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Cazxxx
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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I‘ve been working my way through this for a while. Very interesting and easy to understand

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LitStephanie
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1. Genes act locally, think globally
2. Chocolate, because eating it makes me happier and just a better person to interact with.
3. How about 1379?

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
@SamAnne @GingerAntics @Reggie @I.be.Stef

i.besteph 🧡🧡🧡 4y
Reggie Hmm 1379? All I know is that John I succeeded his father Henry II as King of Castile and King of Leon that year. ( cause I looked it up in Wikipedia, lol) thanks for the tag, my post will come later. 4y
Eggs Chocolate 🍫: the perfect food! Mood food! Thanks for playing along 📚👏🏻🤗👍🏼 4y
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LitStephanie
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Wonderfully clear, concise, and explained in a way non-scientists can grasp, this book helps illuminate how DNA and genes evolved and the scientific basis of evolutionary psychology. I was so impressed with Dawkins' writing. The ideas in this book seem as fresh and revolutionary as when they took the world by storm 40 years ago.

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LitStephanie
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 per cent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity while seeing themselves as stepping-stones to the Almighty.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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ruchigandhi22
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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Here the author is talking about Mantises. Such an interesting fact. Hahaha. Made me laugh

Btw copulation means sex. Hahah

LitStephanie That part made me laugh, too. 4y
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ruchigandhi22
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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Starting this one along with crime and punishment. Planning to read it slowly over the next month

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Darkside723
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....come again?

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kranthir
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This is one of the best books I have read. Richard Dawkins is a brilliant writer and a great explainer. He has this amazing skill of presenting a topic in a way making it look easy and natural. I wish all my subject books were written in this style.

rather_be_reading welcome to litsy 📚☕📚 @LitsyWelcomeWagon 5y
kranthir Thank you 5y
RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #litsywelcomewagon 5y
Eggs Welcome to Litsy 🥳 5y
LitStephanie I just started it, and I was so impressed by his clear, understandable explanation of what he means by genes and how chromosomes go from parent to child. Glad to hear it will continue with the same clarity! 4y
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Darkside723
Selfish Gene (Anniversary) | Richard Dawkins
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... who would‘be known?

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KateFulfordAuthor
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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#inlaws #reviews #others

If you‘ve ever struggled to understand evolution, claimed by some to be the most important idea ever, read this. If you still don‘t understand it, read The Blind Watchmaker. If you still don‘t get it, go and lie down in a darkened room for a while before trying again.

AlaSkaat I was just reading this today! 6y
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mehtabbhadana
Selfish Gene (Anniversary) | Richard Dawkins
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A scientific masterpiece by Dawkins. Explores the evolution of life and genes to what they have become

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BestDogDad
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The Selfish Gene is a deep dive in the world of evolution on a genetic scale, advancing what Darwin theorized. At times I felt like I was in over my head, but Dawkins always does a nice job bringing the subject matter down to an understandable level. I listened to the 2011 version on Audible which was narrated by Richard and his wife, British actress Lalla Ward. This version had a new forward and two extra chapters at the end.

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Violetta
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Astonishing #nonfiction about evolution. #Dawkins states that driving force of evolution is not an individual or group of individuals, but the selfish gene born in a primordial soup, and since then genes construct more and more complicated survival machines, including people. Lots of examples and vivid narration make the book interesting and easy to understand. #Mustread for everyone who is interested in evolution, genes and wonders of nature!

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Violetta
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'We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.'
#currentbookquote, #readingresolutions
@Jess7

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Violetta
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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This will be my first personal reading challenge here on Litsy!😉 May will be non-fiction month 🤓 Planning Hawking, Slingerland, Metzinger, Jaynes and Dawkins. And to finish Senlin Ascends, as well as several book club assignments. A bit ambitious, but 10-days vacation must help! 🌄
Thanks to @Jess7 for the game chart!
#readingresolutions, #maytbr

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taning
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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Good place to start learning about evolution

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Balibee146
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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#TBRsomeday visualising Dawkins looking grumpy on TV lol

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FairyHighRoad
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I can't believe this book was #PublishedInThe1970s 😲for some reason I thought it came out in there 90s #jubilantjuly

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hgrimes
The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins
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In contrast to the disgustingly overpriced academia books we needed for class, this was also required reading, and it probably cost less than $10, I got more out of it than any $100 textbook, I've continued to re-read and reference it post-college, and I love you, Prof. Dawkins. ❤️ #booksnotdebt

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