Ebook {Epub PDF} The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins

 · Steve Davis. “The Extended Phenotype – The Long Reach of the Gene” is the book Richard Dawkins wants you to read “if you read nothing else of mine” because “It is probably the finest thing I shall ever write.”. It purports to be about science, for scientists, yet at the very beginning there is a quite remarkable bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 10 mins. The Extended Phenotype: The Gene As the Unit of Selection by Dawkins, Richard. Skip to content. Sign In; Register; Help; You have items in your cart. The Extended Phenotype: The Gene As the Unit of Selection by Dawkins, Richard. Used; good; hardcover; Condition Good ISBN 10 ISBN 13 Seller. Bonita. 8 rows ·  · OUP Oxford, Mar 4, - Science - pages. 11 Reviews. In The Selfish Gene, Richard 4/5(11).

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene's eye view to argue. Dawkins thinks that an "uneasy tension" lies at the heart of the gene's eye view of evolution. On one hand, there is a beguiling picture of genes—immortal coils, or DNA replicators —forming temporary colonies and passing through generations of mortal, throwaway survival machines. On the other hand, there is a coherent sense of each individual as one agent, as one living thing. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and bltadwin.ru book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene's eye view to argue.

Richard Dawkins. Oxford University Press, Mar 4, - Science - pages. 10 Reviews. By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent. Along with the illuminating insights of the selfish gene and memes, Dawkins gives us the 'extended phenotype'. An extended phenotype might be understood as any effect of genes extending beyond an organism into the world around it which also provide fitness for their replication. Dawkins gives the example of the beaver dam as an extended phenotype (pp). In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate. Written in part as a response, The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides.