Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) was one. Books that achieve both changing science and reaching the public are rare. exhilirating gene's-eye-view of life ― Robert McCrum, Observer Books about science tend to fall into two categories: those that explain it to lay people in the hope of cultivating a wide readership, and those that try to persuade fellow scientists to support a new theory, usually with equations. ― Adam Rutherford, The Observer highly readable and entertaining.
The Selfish Gene has attained its own literary and scientific immortality: as long as we study life, it will be read. ― Adam Rutherford, The Observer Dawkins's prose is lucid and powerful, his argument difficult to contend. In 1976, The Selfish Gene became the first real blockbuster popular science book, a poetic mark in the sand to the public and scientists alike: this idea had to enter our thinking, our research and our culture. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.
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