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The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Description: ISBN 0199291152 / Genre: Science / Nature / Author: Richard Dawkins / Edition: 3Rev Ed / Paperback / 384 Pages / Book is published ... more

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins ... 2006-03-16 by OUP Oxford

Newest Review: ... their changing surroundings and so survived, thrived and multiplied, or else they didn't and so ultimately their species ... more

... became extinct. Darwin didn't really have any explanation for how it was that organisms changed in their physical characteristics from generation to generation, only that they did. He did recognise though the the process was not "intelligent". The organism didn't deliberately change itself. The process of change was essentially random and the success or otherwise of adaptation was pretty much a case of trial and error, the penalty for "error" often being extinction. It really wasn't until ...more

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The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins: Good guys do win (1329 words)
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Those of you have read my review of Richard Dawkins' book, "The God Delusion", will have no illusions about the regard in which I hold the man. Yes, he can be annoying. This is not unusual with anyone who holds firm convictions about their beliefs, and yes, we atheists do have beliefs; this is not the prerogative only of those with "religious" views. Whether Dawkins' book will turn out to be a seminal work only history will decide. Of course, where seminal works are concerned, pretty well none could be considered as Earth-shattering, as history changing as Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" (the full title is much, ... Read the complete review