The resulting tone may possibly irritate some serious professionals. I have also tried to make the book as near as possible to being enjoyable to read. It would give me great satisfaction to believe them, and I have added a glossary of technical terms which I hope may help. Some laypeople who read this book in draft have been kind enough, or polite enough, to claim to have liked it.
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On the other hand it is possible to enjoy a professional book as a spectator, even if not a participant in the profession. Therefore, although this book is in some ways the sequel to my previous book, The Selfish Gene, it assumes that the reader has professional knowledge of evolutionary biology and its technical terms. The readers for whom I am mainly writing are my professional colleagues, evolutionary biologists, ethologists and sociobiologists, ecologists, and philosophers and humanists interested in evolutionary science, including, of course, graduate and undergraduate students in all these disciplines. I happen to be an ethologist, but I hope preoccupations with animal behaviour will not be too noticeable. It is a personal look at the evolution of life, and in particular at the logic of natural selection and the level in the hierarchy of life at which natural selection can be said to act. It is not a textbook, nor an introduction to an established field. The first chapter does some of the work of a Preface, in explaining what the book does and does not set out to accomplish, so I can be brief here. Typeset by Ace Filmsetting Ltd, Frome, Somerset Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0-19-288051-9 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaserīritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms and in other countries should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above
Within the UK, exceptions are allowed in respect of any fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright licensing Agency. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the, prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press. Raised edition with new Afterword and Further Reading 1999Īll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto WarsawĪnd associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Karachi Kuala Iumpur Mumhai Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DPĪthens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires CalcuttaĬape Town Channai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul He has won many literary and scientific awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science, and the 1997 International Cosmos Prize. In 1991 he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The Selfish Gene (1976 second edition 1989) was followed by The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). Richard Dawkins's bestselling books have played a significant role in the renaissance of science book publishing for a general audience. From 1987 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, then he returned to Oxford as University Lecturer (later Reader) and a Fellow of New College, before taking up his present position in 1995. Born in Nairobi of British parents, Richard Dawkins was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate under the Nobel prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. Richard Dawkins is the first holder of Oxford's newly endowed Charles Simoeyi Professorship of Public Understanding of Science.
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