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By the bestselling author of The Selfish Gene, Extended Phenotype is a thought-provoking and intriguing book which deals with the genetic aspects of evolution. Summary of the Book Evolution is commonly viewed as a process of competition between two individuals, with the individual representing a single unit of selection. In this book, Richard Dawkins offers a controversial reinterpretation of that idea. According to him, evolution can be perceived as a battle between genes instead of whole organisms. The various changes in phenotypes like the color of the eye or shape of a leaf, is considered to increase the fitness of an organism. Considering one’s body, personality, and environment as a field of combat, the various genes fight among themselves to express themselves on a strand of DNA. Influential, engaging and controversial, The Extended Phenotype illuminates the complex world of genetics like never before. About Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins is an English evolutionary biologist, ethologist and writer. He is well known for his books The God Delusion, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Selfish Gene, and The Blind Watchmaker. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, where he continued to complete his MA and DPhil. Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement.