Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author

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layton
noted at 11:52PM 02/21/08

Blew my mind. One of my most favorite books.

brettryan
noted at 12:07AM 04/07/08

It's blowing my mind too and I'm only a couple chapters in...

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scie ... read more

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