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The Extended Phenotype

by Richard Dawkins

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2016
  • First published 1982

evolutionary biology genetics

Dawkins argues that genes shape more than the bodies that carry them, including nests, dams and the behavior of hosts and parasites.   The book develops the gene’s-eye view of evolution introduced in The Selfish Gene.