by Richard Dawkins · Editorial Bruño · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434501782
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«El gen egoísta. Las bases biológicas de nuestra conducta» is the popular science essay by Richard Dawkins, published by Editorial Bruño in paperback (424 pages, in Spanish).
Zoologist Richard Dawkins explains the evolutionary bases of animal and human behavior from a gene-centered perspective. The book argues that the main unit of evolution is neither the individual nor the species, but the gene, and analyzes how behaviors such as altruism or cooperation can be understood as strategies to perpetuate genetic material. This edition includes numerous notes to the text and two additional chapters: one on the biological evolution of social cooperation and another on the gene-organism relationship as the subject of evolution.
This Spanish edition appeared in 1990 within the Salvat Ciencia collection and retains the subtitle «Las bases biológicas de nuestra conducta». The original essay, published in English in 1976, is one of the author's most influential works.
Recommended for readers interested in evolutionary biology, genetics and classic popular science.
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995, he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
