Book · 1976 · Nonfiction

The Selfish Gene

Name: The Selfish Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins

Oxford University Press · 496 pages

★ 6.2 editorial score

Genes, not organisms, are what selection acts on, and bodies are the machines genes build to carry themselves forward. Dawkins turned that inversion into how biologists think, and gave us the word meme.

Genre

Science

Subject

Evolution Genetics Natural selection Human nature

Time

1976

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