It is a book on evolution by ethologist Richard Dawkins that promotes the gene-centred view of evolution, as opposed to views focused on the organism and the group. The book builds upon the thesis of George C. Williams's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966); it also popularized ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others. From the gene-centred view, it follows that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave cooperatively with each other.
Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase, 367pp., 17x24,5cm., full color outer text illustrations. Book in very good condition (bottom part of the spine very lightly bumped), slipcase in poor condition (damaged due to some chemical reaction: see photo's).
17x24cm
367 pp.
The Folio Society 2011 London
