The Selfish Gene was dropped. The book contains no illustrations. The book has been translated into at least 23 languages including Arabic, Thai and Turkish. In 2006, a 30th-anniversary edition was published with the Trivers foreword and a new introduction by the author. It was accompanied by a "festschrift" entitled "" (2006). In March 2006, a special event entitled "The Selfish Gene": Thirty Years On was held at the London School of Economics. In March 2011, Audible Inc published an audiobook edition narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward. In 2016, Oxford University Press published a 40th anniversary edition with a new epilogue,
Gene-centered view of evolution for the evolution of social characteristics such as selfishness and altruism. The formulation of the central dogma of molecular biology was summarized by Maynard Smith: The rejection of the inheritance of acquired characters, combined with Ronald Fisher the statistician, giving the subject a mathematical footing, and showing how Mendelian genetics was compatible with natural selection in his 1930 book "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". J. B. S. Haldane, and Sewall Wright, paved the way to the formulation of the selfish-gene theory. For cases where environment can influence heredity, see epigenetics. The view of the gene as the unit of