The Extended Phenotype: Difference between revisions

A technical review of ''The Extended Phenotype'' in the ''Quarterly Review of Biology'' states that, it is an “interesting and thought provoking book, once one gets to the last five chapters.” In the reviewer’s opinion, the book poses interesting questions, such as « "What is the survival value of packaging life into discrete units called ‘organisms’ even though the units of selection appear to be individual ‘replicators’? »" The reviewer states that no “satisfactory answer is given” to this question in the book, though Dawkins suggests that replicators that “interact favorably to create ‘vehicles’ (organisms) may be at an advantage over those that do not (Chapter 14).” The reviewer takes issue with the first nine chapters as being essentially a defense of Dawkin’s first book, ''The Selfish Gene''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Endler |first=John A. |date=1983 |editor-last=Dawkins |editor-first=Richard |title=Son of Selfish Gene |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2828809 |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=224–227 |doi=10.1086/413220 |jstor=2828809 |s2cid=85836282 |issn=0033-5770}}</ref>