THE SELFISH GENE - LMU

THE SELFISH GENER ichard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor for the PublicUnderstanding of Science at Oxford University. Born in Nairobiof British parents, he was educated at Oxford and did hisdoctorate under the Nobel-prizewinning ethologist Niko Tin-bergen. From 1967 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor at theUniversity of California at Berkeley, returning as UniversityLecturer and later Reader in /oology at New College, Oxford,before becoming the first holder of the Simonyi Chair in is a fellow of New SELFISH Gene (1976; second edition 1989) catapulted RichardDawkins to fame, and remains his most famous and widely readwork.

(neither of us, I think, noticed the resonance with Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant). I now think Maschler may have been right. Many crit-ics, especially vociferous ones learned in philosophy as I have discov-ered, prefer to read a book by title only. No doubt this works well.

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