The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection by Richard Dawkins

The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection

Richard Dawkins

307 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The common view of evolution is that it is the process of competition between individuals—"survival of the fittest"—so that the individual is seen as the "unit of selection." But the newest book from the author of The Selfish Gene proposes a contr...

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