Biology
The Selfish Gene
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006, 384pp, 30th ed.
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes.
Table of contents
| 1 | Why are people? | 1 |
| 2 | The replicators | 12 |
| 3 | Immortal coils | 21 |
| 4 | The gene machine | 46 |
| 5 | Aggression : stability and the selfish machine | 66 |
| 6 | Genesmanship | 88 |
| 7 | Family planning | 109 |
| 8 | Battle of the generations | 123 |
| 9 | Battle of the sexes | 140 |
| 10 | You scratch my back, I'll ride on yours | 166 |
| 11 | Memes : the new replicators | 189 |
| 12 | Nice guys finish first | 202 |
| 13 | The long reach of the gene | 234 |