- Genetics, Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Biological Evolution
How did the replication bomb we call "life" begin and where in the world, or rather, in the universe, is it heading? Writing with characteristic wit and an ability to clarify complex phenomena (the New York Times described his style as "the sort of science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius"), Richard Dawkins confronts this ancient mystery.
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- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Richard Dawkins
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 172
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780752839851
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“All peoples have epic legends about their tribal ancestors, and these legends often formalize themselves into religious cults.”
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book *The Selfish Gene*, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book *The Extended Phenotype*, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is well know
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