Richard Dawkins- The Selfish Gene-Audiobook and Book

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The Selfish Gene is a book on evolution by Richard Dawkins, published in 1976.
It builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams's first book Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkins coined
the term selfish gene as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best
viewed as acting on genes and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection
based on genes. An organism is expected to evolve to maximize its inclusive fitness—the number of copies of its genes
passed on globally (rather than by a particular individual). As a result, populations will tend towards an
evolutionarily stable strategy. The book also coins the term meme for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to
the gene, suggesting that such "selfish" replication may also model human culture, in a different sense. Memetics has
become the subject of many studies since the publication of the book.



This item contains the following content



1] The audiobook as 60 MP3 files

2] The PDF of the 30th anniversary edition of The Selfish Gene

3] The book as a single Microsoft Word file,  as well as the 60 individual Microsoft Word files that correspond to the
audiobook files



Note:  this book is  read by a synthesized voice (AT&T Mike); however, I am a very experienced audio book listener and I
have created the MP3 files as well as all of the Microsoft Word  source files.   I used textspeaker 2.0,  converted the
Word files  to WAV files  and then converted them to MP3.  After much testing I have determined that this permits a much
better quality than simply allowing textspeaker to convert the files directly to MP3. I have created the Microsoft Word
files (and therefore the audio files) with some care  by placing periods after all titles and sections for natural
pauses, as well as the elimination of the title contents pages and any citations that would not normally be found in an
audio book, and I have included footnotes that would generally be included within an audiobook.  In case you are
interested  it took approximately half as long, perhaps more, to create this audiobook as it would have taken to simply
read the book, but I was hoping to share my work with a larger community as well as to enable myself to listen to the
book again at a later date.  Often  there are many times I listen to audio books and then wish to search for or relisten
to a particular item and the inclusion of the PDF as well as the Word file should enable you  to search for content
electronically which then makes searching for that portion of the audio book considerably more easy.

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