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DAWKINS, Richard
The Extended Phenotype. The Gene as the Unit of Selection
Oxford: W. H. Freeman and Company Limited, 1982
8vo., bright green cloth, lettered in silver to upper cover and spine; together in the printed green and black dustwrapper designed by Perry Smith; pp. [v], vi-viii, [iv], 307, [i]; the book fine, the wrapper very near fine, with just a few light scuffs mostly affecting the outer edges.
First edition, this copy neatly signed by Dawkins in blue ink to the title page. A ticket to the Hay-on-Wye festival 2025, where this book was signed, is loosely laid in.
Dawkins’ second book, following the success of The Selfish Gene in 1976, is also one of his most technical. Though intended by him as a direct sequel, the marketing and writing of the book was geared towards professional evolutionary biologists, and expounds his evolutionary theory in which he considers battles between genes, instead of whole organisms, as being the factor to consider when thinking about evolution. In this way, he argues, it is the changes in phenotypes (the end products of genes, such as eye colour or leaf shape) which increase the fitness of an individual - and therefore their likelihood of succeeding.
The book which Dawkins considered to be his most important contribution to the field of evolutionary biology, and increasingly scarce flat signed.
DAWKINS, Richard
The Extended Phenotype. The Gene as the Unit of Selection
Oxford: W. H. Freeman and Company Limited, 1982
8vo., bright green cloth, lettered in silver to upper cover and spine; together in the printed green and black dustwrapper designed by Perry Smith; pp. [v], vi-viii, [iv], 307, [i]; the book fine, the wrapper very near fine, with just a few light scuffs mostly affecting the outer edges.
First edition, this copy neatly signed by Dawkins in blue ink to the title page. A ticket to the Hay-on-Wye festival 2025, where this book was signed, is loosely laid in.
Dawkins’ second book, following the success of The Selfish Gene in 1976, is also one of his most technical. Though intended by him as a direct sequel, the marketing and writing of the book was geared towards professional evolutionary biologists, and expounds his evolutionary theory in which he considers battles between genes, instead of whole organisms, as being the factor to consider when thinking about evolution. In this way, he argues, it is the changes in phenotypes (the end products of genes, such as eye colour or leaf shape) which increase the fitness of an individual - and therefore their likelihood of succeeding.
The book which Dawkins considered to be his most important contribution to the field of evolutionary biology, and increasingly scarce flat signed.