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

The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as the Unit of Selection

Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins

307 pages • first pub 1982 (view editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are "selfish" they have the capacity to effect the body of another ...

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