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Books by Richard Dawkins; The Selfish Gene, the Blind Watchmaker, the Extended Phenotype, the Ancestor's Tale, the God Delusion
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-01.
ISBN 9781155162652
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Selfish Gene, the Blind Watchmaker, the Extended Phenotype, the Ancestor's Tale, the God Delusion, River Out of Eden, the Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution, Unweaving the Rainbow, a Devil's Chaplain, Climbing Mount Improbable, Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life. Excerpt: A Devil's Chaplain A Devil's Chaplain , subtitled Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins . Published five years after his previous book Unweaving the Rainbow , it contains 32 essays covering subjects including pseudoscience , genetic determinism , memetics , terrorism , religion and creationism . A section of the book is devoted to Dawkins' late adversary Stephen Jay Gould . The book's title is a reference to a quotation of Charles Darwin , made in reference to Darwin's lack of belief in how "a perfect world" was designed by God : "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horridly cruel works of nature!" Content The book is divided into seven sections as follows: 1 Science and Sensibility essays largely concerning science and the scientific method . 1.1 A Devil's Chaplain 1.2 What is True? 1.3 Gaps in the Mind 1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair 1.5 Trial By Jury 1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls 1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed 1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously; Sanderson of Oundle 2 Light Will Be Thrown essays on Darwinian topics. 2.1 Light Will Be Thrown 2.2 Darwin Triumphant 2.3 The 'Information Challenge' 2.4 Genes Aren't Us 2.5 Son of Moore's Law 3 The Infected Mind a selection of anti-religious writings. 3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers 3.2 Viruses of the Mind 3.3 The Great Convergence 3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads 3.5 Time to
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Books by Richard Dawkins; The Selfish Gene, the Blind Watchmaker, the Extended Phenotype, the Ancestor's Tale, the God Delusion
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