“Three imaginary readers looked over my shoulder while I was writing, and I now dedicate the book to them. […] First the general reader, the layman […] second the expert [and] third the student.”

Preface
The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989)

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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941

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