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The extended phenotype

the long reach of the gene

By Richard Dawkins,Wolfgang Mayer

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Publish Date

1983

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

307

Description:

By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are "selfish" they have the capacity to effect the body of another animal, so revolutionizing our views of adaptation.