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017020
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London, Penguin Books, 2006.
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xxi, 340pGrey Spine
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A brilliant and controversial book which vividly explores how the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non- random process discovered by Darwin is the only answer to the most important question of all: why do we exist?
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Introduction to the 2006 edition
Preface
1. Explaining the very improbable
2. Good design
3. Accumulatin small change
4. Making tracks through animal space
5. The power and the archives
6. Origins and miracles
7. Constructive evolution
8. Explosions and spirals
9. Puncturing punctuationism
10. The one true tree of life
11. Doomed rivals
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9780141026169 Pb.
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022293
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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xv, 468pWhite spine
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Ford Landmark Science
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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 that the genes that sit within an organism have an influence that reaches out beyond the visible traits in that body - the phenotype - to the wider environment, which can include other individuals. So, for instance, the genes of the beaver drive it to gather twigs to produce the substantial physical structure of a dam; and the genes of the cuckoo chick produce effects that manipulate the behaviour of the host bird, making it nurture the intruder as one of its own. This notion of the extended phenotype has proved to be highly influential in the way we understand evolution and the natural world. It represents a key scientific contribution to evolutionary biology, and it continues to play an important role in research in the life sciences.
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9780198788911 Pb.
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