Introduction to 30th anniversary editionPreface to second editionForeword to first editionPreface to first edition--The Selfish GeneEndnotesUpdated bibliographyIndex and key to bibliographyExtracts from reviews
I thought he was on much solider ground with genetics than with memetics. Dawkins doesn't go farther than using memes as a metaphor in this (as I understood it) -- others have run with it and turned them into something as supernatural as Sheldrake's morphic fields. Would be interesting for someone...
I bought this book because I'm fascinated by the idea of evolution - I mean, at first glance it appears utterly preposterous, right? So I wanted to take a closer look. I started by reading The Origin of Species (Darwin, of course). That was well worth-while but clearly his theory was wrong, for many...
I bought this book because I'm fascinated by the idea of evolution - I mean, at first glance it appears utterly preposterous, right? So I wanted to take a closer look. I started by reading The Origin of Species (Darwin, of course). That was well worth-while but clearly his theory was wrong, for many...
I lot of interesting food for thought. Some of his theories seem a bit of a stretch, but I'm a skeptic, and just need more evidence. The tone of a gene with consciousness did get on my nerves a bit, even though Dawkins repeatedly states that he uses that tone for convenience. I look forward to readi...
- What some people seem to find hard to understand is that there's a part of you, in fact the most important part, that's immaterial and immortal. Your body is really no more than a temporary shell for the immortal part, and houses it for a little while until it dies. The rest of this review is in m...
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