书名：The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition自私的基因40周年纪念版

作者：Richard Dawkins
出版社名称：OUP Oxford
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9780198788607
商品尺寸：19.6 x 3.6 x 13.2 cm
包装：平装
页数：496（以实物为准）
★全球极具影响力的科学家道金斯经典代表作。

★20世纪百大经典名著之一，热销全球40载，是一部不仅在基因领域更在社会科学领域具重要影响力的经典作品。
★2017年，在庆祝皇家学会科学图书奖30周年的民意调查中，被列为有史以来有影响力的科学书籍，领先于达尔文《物种起源》和牛顿《数学原理》。
★从基因理解生命，更阐明人类久远而深刻的过去；不只是实实在在的认知科学，更以充满想象力的绝妙论述回答人类面临的重大课题：我们从哪里来，又将到哪里去？生命有何意义，我们该如何认识自己？并提出大胆创见：我们生来是自私的，任何生物，包括我们自己，都只是求生的机器。复制、变异和淘汰这简单的三种机制可以演变出大千世界所有生命现象的林林总总。
★本书出版40年来一直是极富争议的话题，改变几代人的世界观，更将进化论从基因层面升华至文化层面，创造了“觅母”（meme，即文化基因）这一新型的复制基因名词，对于文化进化的意义影响甚巨，道金斯提出：在这个世界上，只有我们，我们人类，能够反抗自私的复制基因的暴政。
★美国投资家查理·芒格、英国进化科学家汉密尔顿、知名科幻作家刘慈欣、清华大学科学史系主任吴国盛教授、企业家罗永浩、文化名人梁文道、豆瓣创始人阿北等激赏推荐。

Review
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... 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 ... 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) highly readable and entertaining ... exhilirating gene's-eye-view of life (Robert McCrum, Observer) --a

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. Books that achieve both changing science and reaching the public are rare. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) was one. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is another. From the moment of its publication 40 years ago, it has been a sparkling best-seller and a scientific game-changer (Matt Ridley, Nature) --a

Richard Dawkins' magnificent introduction to the world of popular science writing ... Punchy, elegant, self-righteous, devotional (at least in a Dawinian way), it showed that genetics was absorbing, challenging and important (Nick Spencer, The Tablet) --a

The Selfish Gene《自私的基因》于1976年首次出版之后便畅销全球，是20世纪百大经典名著之一，是一部不仅在基因领域更在社会科学领域具有重要影响力的经典作品。

我们从哪里来，又将到哪里去？生命有何意义，我们该如何认识自己？《自私的基因》以充满想象力的叙述回答了这些重要命题。道金斯在本书中提出大胆创见：我们生来是自私的，任何生物，包括我们自己，都只是求生的机器。这本书是实实在在的认知科学，复制、变异和淘汰这简单的三种机制可以演变出大千世界所有生命现象的林林总总。

《自私的基因》更为我们提供了一种新的世界观。道金斯在书中将进化论从基因层面升华至文化层面，创造了“觅母”（meme，即文化基因）这一新型的复制因子名词，特指人类社会发展中的文化进化，并提出：在这个世界上，只有我们，我们人类，能够反抗自私的复制因子的暴政。

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.

As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. 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. 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. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.

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.

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins，1941— ），英国皇家科学院院士，牛津大学西蒙尼“公众理解科学教授”，进化论生物学家。他是英国著名科学作家，几乎每本书都是畅销书，并经常在各大媒体引起轰动。

2005年，英国《前景》杂志会同美国《外交政策》杂志评选出在世的全球100名有影响力的公共知识分子，道金斯赫然在列。
1976年出版的《自私的基因》是他重要的代表作，他的基因观念颠覆了我们对自身的幻觉，深刻影响了整整一个时代。
其他主要作品有《延伸的表型》《祖先的故事》《盲眼钟表匠》《地球上伟大的表演》《解析彩虹》《魔鬼的牧师》《攀登不可能的山峰》等。

Professor Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential science writers and communicators of our generation. He was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he held from 1995 until 2008, and is Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford. His bestselling books include The Extended Phenotype (1982) and its sequel The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2004), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), and The God Delusion (2007). He has won many literary and scientific awards, including the 1987 Royal Society of Literature Award, the 1990 Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the 1994 Nakayama Prize for Human Science, the 1997 International Cosmos Prize, and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest in 2009.