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A commemorative anniversary edition of the landmark work first published 30 years ago. There is a new introduction by Richard Dawkins, plus the original prefaces and Robert Trivers' 1976 foreword, and extracts from a selection of early reviews. Other new material includes an enlarged review section, with extracts from a range of early reviews, highlighting the book's importance and influence.

From reviews:

'The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius.'' -New York Times

'This book should be read, can be read, by almost everyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science

'Learned, witty and very well written...Exhilaratingly good.' Peter Medawar in The Spectator

'The exciting theories and their wide implications are explaned with clarity, wit and enthusiasm.' Peter Parker, Sunday Times

`Dawkins demonstrates that complex, theoretical or mathematical ideas can be expressed rigorously, in plain English. The book remains an excellent way for those who have not been trained in evolution to understand modern arguments.' Trends in Ecology and Evolution

"A splendid example of how difficult scientific ideas can be explained by someone who understands them and is willing to take the trouble" The New Yorker

'the reader will come away with a clear understanding of kin selection, evolutionary stable strategies, and similar staples of the literature on evolutionary theories of animal behaviour. This is a considerable achievement.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'buy this book, read it and recommend it to your students...There is still nothing else quite like it. Not only are the new chapters and endnotes worthy additions to the original, but the 1976 text comes up as fresh as a primrose and, in its way, nearly as perfect.'l Animal Behaviour

'Scientists give every appearance of being addicts, and science is their vice. That is one reason why progress in science is so rapid. I for one have benefited a great deal from Dawkins's addiction.' David L. Hull, Nature