First US edition of the book that "brought about a silent and almost immediate revolution in biology" (Grafen and Ridley, 72) — and coined the term "meme."
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $750.00
"When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell."
Dawkins examines evolution from the point of view of the gene. The book argues (in part — despite its often misunderstood title) that our genetics help explain the evolutionary utility of altruism. While Dawkins is now at least as famous for his atheism, THE SELFISH GENE is perhaps best known today as the work that introduced the concept of the "meme," or "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation," as Dawkins describes it. A landmark work of popular science.
Read more: Grafen and Ridley, Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think.
First printing. New York and London: Oxford University Press, (1976). 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original full blue cloth with gilt spine titles. In original unclipped ($8.95) color pictorial jacket featuring a painting by Desmond Morris. xvi, 224 pages. Faint fading to jacket spine, minor edewear. Some foxing to verso (unobtrusive) and some faint internally here and there as well. Overall, bright and sound.
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