Extended Phenotype. The long arm of the gene

Richard Dokins is a major British biologist, author of the theory of memes. His brilliant books played a huge role in the revival of interest in scientific and popular literature. The clarity of the presentation, humor and iron logic even make the strictly scientific works of Dookinza accessible to a wide range of readers. The “expanded phenotype "develops the ideas of its famous book" Egoistic gene "(1976), where evolution and natural selection are considered from the point of view of competition of genes. These ideas, which caused a violent polemic, have already firmly entered scientific use, and the "dilated phenotype" is rightfully considered one of the most important books in modern evolutionary biology