The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition

Edition It Is Sobering To Realize That I Have Lived Nearly Half My Life With The Selfish Gene-for Better, For Worse. Over The Years, As Each Of My Seven Subsequent Books Has Appeared, Publishers Have Sent Me On Tour To Promote It. Audiences Respond To The New Book, Whichever One It Is, With Gratifying Enthusiasm, Applaud Politely And Ask Intelligent Questions. Then They Line Up To Buy, And Have Me Sign . . . The Selfish Gene. That Is A Bit Of An Exaggeration. Some Of Them Do Buy The New Book And, For The Rest, My Wife Consoles Me By Arguing That People Who Newly Discover An Author Will Naturally Tend To Go Back To His First Book: Having Read The Selfish Gene, Surely They'll Work Their Way Through To The Latest And (to Its Fond Parent) Favourite Baby?-- Provided By Publisher.