StarAstrologer - Books : The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 576.82
EAN: 9780192880512
ISBN: 0192880519
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 05, 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 12534
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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This is a revised edition with a new afterword by Daniel Dennett. The Extended Phenotype carries on from where The Selfish Gene takes off. It is a fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. Dawkins's theory is that individual organisms are replicators that have extended phenotypic effects on society and the world at large, thus our genes have the ability to manipulate other individuals. A worldwide bestseller, this book has become a classic in popular science writing.
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The first thing I will say about The Extended Phenotype (EP) is that it is far from the first book on evolution you should read and as a stand-alone Dawkins book it is a poor choice because it is a sequel of sorts to The Selfish Gene (TSG) and there is much more going on besides. I would suggest Climbing Mount Improbable or The Blind Watchmaker first. Both of those books by Dawkins have a much broader, more generalized, look at natural selection and evolution. TSG covers the basics of the gene view ... Read More
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It's a tough read at times, since it is aimed at Dawkins' colleagues and biology students. But it gives you a sense that the mechanisms of inheritance and natural selection are getting to be very well understood.
Oddly, the alleged subject of the book is to be found tucked away in the last chapters, the first 10 or so being Dawkins explaining stuff and telling how others are mistaken.
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TEP is primarily a technical treatise. It elaborates the implications of holding a Darwinian explanation for the diversity of life forms across and, most especially, through time. In detail, the reader is alerted to what is conceptually required for a Darwinian theory to be internally consistent, and for it then to be applicable to life as it is and as it has been.
Professor Dawkins persists in using the misleadingly emotive terminology from his previous best seller, The Selfish Gene. ... Read More
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I read this book because Dawkins in other fora has identified it as his best work. He says it's a version of "The Selfish Gene" for biologists, but as Daniel Dennett points out in the afterword, it is actually an extended philosophical argument. More precisely, it's a scholastic disquisition on why it's only the individual gene that may be denominated as the "unit of selection" for purposes of natural selection as opposed to the organism or some other model. Here's an example of why this is more a ... Read More
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I was impressed with Richard Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene" and this book is the logical followup. It is more complicated and therefore more difficult to comprehend than the former. So that makes the very small type all the more annoying -- it adds to the difficulty. Seriously, the type size is among the smallest I have seen in any modern mass produced book.
Anyone know if any of the earlier editions have larger type?
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