Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hard Back First Edition Hardcover Book

Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hard Back First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket with Archival Protective Jacket Cover. Illustrations, diagrams in black and white throughout text. Fine binding of grey half cloth. gilt titles, purple boards, quite clean and unmarked, tight, solid and square. Internals clean, with ten pages with pencil underlined text, does not interfere with easy reading. Former owner name and address on endpaper. The author argues against the theory that makes the gene the key to understanding human nature and espouses a more complex and richer vision of life. He urges that scientists focus on the organism and its lifeline-the trajectory it takes through time and space-and relegate the gene to a less prominent role in our view of human life. 335 pages with bibliography and index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1997, Oxford Univ Press, Oxford and New York.

0195120353.

0195120353.