The Extended Phenotype
by Richard Dawkins
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Dawkins extends his gene-centred view of evolution beyond the body, arguing that genes influence the wider world, beaver dams and parasite behaviour are gene expressions too.
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In this collection, The Extended Phenotype references 1 other book and is cited by 3 other books.
It draws on The Selfish Gene.
It’s picked up by Consciousness Explained, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life and The Selfish Gene.
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The Extended Phenotype is Dawkins's intellectual sequel to The Selfish Gene. He extends the gene-centric view to argue that genes reach beyond the body to influence the wider environment.
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Dennett engages explicitly with Dawkins's Extended Phenotype, using its boundary-blurring view of the organism to argue that the self extends beyond a crisp biological border.
Dennett cites Dawkins's Extended Phenotype when arguing that selection's effects reach beyond the organism - a key premise for his claim that culture is subject to Darwinian algorithms.
The Extended Phenotype (bibliography reference 47) is Dawkins's own follow-up to The Selfish Gene. Where the first book argues genes are the unit of selection, the second argues gene effects extend beyond the body into the wider world.
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