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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Dawkins |
ISBN: | 0192177737 9780192177735 0192860925 9780192860927 |
OCLC Number: | 20012195 |
Description: | xi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Why are people? -- The replicators -- Immortal coils -- The gene machine -- Aggression : stability and the selfish machine -- Genesmanship -- Family planning -- Battle of the generations -- Battle of the sexes -- You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours -- Memes : the new replicators -- Nice guys finish first -- The long reach of the gene. |
Responsibility: | Richard Dawkins. |
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Abstract:
Dawkin's theory that genes may reach outside the bodies in which they sit and manipulate other individuals is recapitulated in this book, the new edition of which has two new chapters - a summary of the arguments and a new argument on the co-operation between the selfish genes.
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