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The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins, Wolfgang Mayer · 1981 · 307 pages
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By suggesting that individual organisms should be viewed as a single coherent unit, working to maximize their own reproductive success, the author explains that as these organisms are "selfish" they have the capacity to effect the body of another animal, so revolutionizing our views of adaptation.
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