Richard Dawkins: books
Books by Richard Dawkins:
- The
Selfish Gene (1976 1989)
- genes are selfish, even when seemingly
altruistic.
Read the opening pages. - The Extended Phenotype (1982) - the long reach of the gene. New edition (June 1999) with an afterword by Daniel Dennett
- The Blind Watchmaker (1986) - natural selection and the illusion of design
- River out of Eden (1995) - a river of DNA flows through time and through ourselves
- Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) - case studies of natural selection in action
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998)
- "Wait! Which books should I read first, and in what order ??"
- Order Richard Dawkins' books from amazon.com
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Books featuring Richard Dawkins:
- The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution by John Brockman (1995) - "23 noted scientists discussing their theories, the nature of scientific inquiry, and their common desire to be recognized as today's intellectual leaders". Visit the Edge Foundation website, and read the feature on Dawkins.
- The End of Science by John Horgan (1996). He speaks with Dawkins and other key figures in the chapter "the end of evolutionary biology".
- How Things Are A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind by John Brockman & Katinka Matson (Editors) - includes "Good and Bad Reasons for Believing" by Richard Dawkins
- The Mind's I by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett (Chapter 10)
- Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning - Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Eric and Richard Posner, Wendy Doniger, Andrea Dworkin, and other distinguished scholars and writers from a broad range of disciplines address the troubling and fascinating issue of human cloning.
