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Title: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0-19-286092-5 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (141 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential
Comment: One of the most lucid explanations of Darwin, evolution and the wonderful and mindless progress of nature. This book really does make the creationist argument rather facile and pointless. Really excellent footnotes that one day I hope to have the time to wade through. I could read this again and again, other books by Dawkins are of similar quality and this man writes with true intellectual rigour, honesty and in places downright agression, which is sometimes i feel justified - see for example "a devils chaplain" for his exceptional dealing with fundamentalism, charlatans and just about anyone who has seriously hacked the guy off in the last few decades. Love it, can't get enough of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read for All Humans
Comment: One reviewer compared Dawkins to Galileo, since Dawkins is doing for Darwin what Galileo did for Copernicus. I do not think that this is an exaggeration at all.
Dawkins writes with such stunning clarity, such exhilirating precision, that the reader is left breathless at the book's finish, full of galactic knowledge. His enthusiasm is infectious, so much so that you cannot help but want to bonk everyone you know over the head with his books. For the first time since the planet's birth, there are beings who understand the power of Natural Selection, who can perceive their own origins, and this fact is downright astonishing to Dawkins (as it should be to everyone).
In The Selfish Gene (and in his other books) he explains the complexities of the process of Natural Selection with a language that is accesible to undergraduates of any major. Words like "gene" and "junk DNA" are well on their way to becomming buzz words, even topics of debate at the dinner table. For people who think that the human soul has thus been destroyed by such reductionism, think again--Dawkins' work shows us that we are all much closer to each other than we ever thought, that our very bodies are related to one another and depend on the interaction with one another to survive. Maybe this kind of understanding will finally quelch our strange desire to destroy each other.
The next few decades will undoubtedly be host to the Darwinian Revolution, and it will be to books like The Selfish Gene that make it possible. Everyone, even the most ardent creationists, should read this book--if nothing else, to know exactly what they are up against. As Dan Dennet has said, "arithematic is right." 2 plus 2 equals 4. Move over Obsolete Mythology, real intelligence has arrived.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Genius Reader
Comment: On the book it said that the NY Times called it "The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius." After finishing the book I agree with that blurb wholeheartedly!
The book is definately a brain workout! While the average reader can definately understand pretty much everything, Dawkins' logic and reasoning abilities are breathtaking and you're almost shocked you can go along for the ride!
Everything is thoroughly reachable and Dawkins has a fabulous knack at explaining things! I DEFINATELY think they should teach this book in Highschool Biology! I didn't understand ANYTHING about evolution and natural selection from text books but this book was an AMAZING tool at understanding those concepts!
He gives so many examples and simple but profoundly real explanations that toward the end of the book you really feel like a genius and like you know it all!
I definately, definately recommend this book for the reader with no prior scientific interest or experience and definately to ANYBODY with an interest in natural selection and evolution.
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Title: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0393315703 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins ISBN: 019286212X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker ISBN: 0393318486 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett ISBN: 0192880519 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE by Daniel C. Dennett ISBN: 068482471X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 12 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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