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Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley's books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). His most recent book, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, won the award for the best science book published in 2003... show more
Matt Ridley's books have been shortlisted for six literary awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters). His most recent book, The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, won the award for the best science book published in 2003 from the National Academies of Science. He has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
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sunpig
sunpig rated it 12 years ago
Felt disgusted by the end of the first chapter, and couldn't go on. The interesting points he was trying to make were too thickly padded by layers of bourgeois self-justification.
realityinabox
realityinabox rated it 13 years ago
Lost interest. Too long, and from the reviews and the bits that I did read, it err'd a bit too much on the optimist side.
Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 13 years ago
"We've got it good"We really are living in special times. This book with Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" show how we are living at a very special time and things will most likely only get better. The book demonstrates how humans became special through our ability to trade with one another. Yo...
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