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018602
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London, London, 2013.
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309pWhite spine
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Famous for his radical new vision of Darwinism, Richard Dawkins paints a colorful, richly textured canvas of his early life from innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist.
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9780552779050 Pb.
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017020
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London, Penguin Books, 2006.
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xxi, 340pGrey Spine
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A brilliant and controversial book which vividly explores how the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non- random process discovered by Darwin is the only answer to the most important question of all: why do we exist?
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Introduction to the 2006 edition
Preface
1. Explaining the very improbable
2. Good design
3. Accumulatin small change
4. Making tracks through animal space
5. The power and the archives
6. Origins and miracles
7. Constructive evolution
8. Explosions and spirals
9. Puncturing punctuationism
10. The one true tree of life
11. Doomed rivals
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9780141026169 Pb.
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020487
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London, Bantam Press, 2015.
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455pWhite spine
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Richard Dawkins shares his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.
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9780593072561 Pb.
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| I01726 | 570.92/DAW | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022293
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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xv, 468pWhite spine
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Ford Landmark Science
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The Extended Phenotype gave a deeper clarification of the central concept of the gene as the unit of selection; but it did much more besides. In it, Dawkins extended the gene's eye view to argue that the genes that sit within an organism have an influence that reaches out beyond the visible traits in that body - the phenotype - to the wider environment, which can include other individuals. So, for instance, the genes of the beaver drive it to gather twigs to produce the substantial physical structure of a dam; and the genes of the cuckoo chick produce effects that manipulate the behaviour of the host bird, making it nurture the intruder as one of its own. This notion of the extended phenotype has proved to be highly influential in the way we understand evolution and the natural world. It represents a key scientific contribution to evolutionary biology, and it continues to play an important role in research in the life sciences.
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9780198788911 Pb.
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018469
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London, Black Swan, 2006.
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463pWhite spine
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The God delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical
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Preface to the paperback edition
Preface
1. A deeply religious non-believer
2. The God hypothesis
3. arguments for God's existence
4. Why there almost certainly is no God
5. The roots of religion
6. The roots of morality: why are we good?
7. The 'Good' book and the changing moral Zeitgeist
8. What's wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?
9. Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion
10. A much needed gap?
Appendix.
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9780552774291 Pb.
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023317
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London, Bantam Press, 2017.
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438pBlack spine
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Woven into an exploration of the vastness of geological time, for instance, is the peculiar history of the giant tortoises and the sea turtles--whose journeys between water and land tell us a deeper story about evolution. At this moment, when so many highly placed people still question the fact of evolution, Dawkins asks what Darwin would make of his own legacy--"a mixture of exhilaration and exasperation"--and celebrates science as possessing many of religion's virtues--"explanation, consolation, and uplift"--without its detriments of superstition and prejudice. In a world grown irrational and hostile to facts.
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9780593077511 Pb.
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016125
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2006 (30th anniversay edition)
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976.
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xxiii, 360pBrown Spine
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In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
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9780195690668 Pb.
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016790
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London, Allen Lane, 1998.
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xiv, 337pBlack Spine
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Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says Dawkins - Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don't lose their poetry because they are solved; the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mystery. Dawkins takes up the most important and compelling topics in modern science, from astronomy and genetics to language and virtual reality, and combines them in a landmark statement of the human appetite for wonder.
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071399214X Hb.
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