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... Weinberg is not one I've read, but may be worth considering. For evolution by natural selection, Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene should be both accurate and accessible. I've meant to look into some of his other books, The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable and The Exten ...

... one. Then there's Freeman Dyson's Disturbing the Universe which I've never touched, as well as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene. And this would be why one of my tags is "unread" :)

... Frey The Natural History of Make-Believe The Year of Living Biblically Zeno and the Tortoise TBR: Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale The book your church doesn't want you to read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic The New Joy of Sex Breaking the Spell: Reli ...

... of a single one of my work colleagues back in England. Over time, I started reading non-fiction stuff, starting with The Selfish Gene, and branching into physics and the like. I'd never had much in the way of deep philosophical thoughts until I started that thread of wider non-fiction ...

... of those "dangerous" authors Doug is warning us about. But yes, seeing the world through the spectacles of Dawkins' The Selfish Gene etc, etc., does rather tend to pierce through a lot of romantic illusions. (Though, come to think of it, Fay Weldon's Letters to Alice: On First Reading ...

... alt 599 Mammalia - Rats : observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants 591 Zoology - The Selfish Gene or Animals in Translation 610 Medical Sciences; Medicine - Mountains Beyond Mountains 613 Promotion of Health - The bloodless revolution : a ...

... possible to read more advanced books in the various subcategories. It's interesting that Darwin's Dangerous Idea and The Selfish Gene are both among the top 10 LT recommendations for The Language Instinct. I'll definitely keep an eye out for all three of them (oh, my poor TBR pile!). ...

... in evolutionary theory I could recommend Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett (146 Naturalism & related systems) and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (591 Zoology), both of which are very well written, make the fundamental ideas very clear, and overstate their cases enough to annoy ...

... used Adaptation in artificial and natural systems 575 Physiological systems of plants Ever since Darwin 591 Zoology The selfish gene Note: the 570s must have changed definition; I have a lot of books about human biological or cultural evolution that are in the 570s, which now seem to be ...

... geometry of nature QC Physics The character of physical law QE Geology Wonderful life QH Natural history, Biology The selfish gene RA Public aspects of medicine Plagues and peoples RC Internal medicine Management of gastrointestinal diseases RD Surgery Principles of ...

... and somebody is going to great lengths to kill him. Gervase sighs and sets out to straighten the familial tangle. 46. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins I'm sold on the conception of genes as the determinant actors who define an organism; I'm less sold on Dawkin's attempts to stretch ...

... of cosmology and geology and evolution and nuclear physics and nature in general and then asked them how many books such as The Selfish Gene, A Brief History of Time and The Elegant Universe and so on they had read? When they said they hadn't, I said that it would be a bit difficult to have ...

Just finishing The Selfish Gene and starting up Portrait of Dr. Gachet, a book about Van Gogh's famous painting. I plan to follow that with Strapless another book about a painting.

... the LT numbers for the book, I find it interesting that there are already more copies of this book on LT than there are for The Selfish Gene which is thirty plus years old now while TGD is not even a year old. I did see that the new Michael Behe is out. The Edge of Evolution. I'll probably ...

The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker were the first books I read on evoluition. I was 16 at the time and I didn't find them heavy going at all. The Blind Watchmaker was specifically written as an introduction to evolution. EDIT: The Origin of Species is surprisingly readable, too.

... Introduction to Evolution? There are also several good books listed in the references there. I'd single out The Selfish Gene for special mention, although it might be a bit dense as popular science writing goes.

... becomes the actual number two on my list, and the others that I have yet to finish slide down a notch. This is: 2. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins a book that does an excellent job of laying out the basics behind genes, organisms, and evolutionary theory.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce

... or play on words and is supposed to make you laugh. (cf Terry Pratchett) Richard Dawkin's early work such as the selfish gene are pretty good. I've been told he kind of went off on a rant on God delusion. Sounds like Hitchins who I've not heard of before has managed to be ...

the selfish gene has to be on that list. 1001 is a huge list though - so you can probably get a few more of Dawkins' works on it too. Maybe some of Stephen Jay Gould s too as a counterpoint. The original Origin of the Species is a must. A brief history of Time and maybe some of the ...

Well I'll be first to mention Richard Dawkins ;-) The most thought provoking of his has to be Selfish Gene. But my personal favourite is The Blind Watchmaker for its poetic beauty and eloquence.

My recommendations. Biology Matt Ridley's Genome Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene David Quammen's The Song of the Dodo Cognitive Science Gary Marcus's The Birth of the Mind Stephen Pinker's How the Mind Works Complex Systems Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach Scien ...

... leaps of faith. Still, there were things in the book that I'd heard but wanted to see, so I bought it again, along with The Selfish Gene (he's made a lot of money off me lately!). Tone aside, some of his arguments are so insightful, incisive, and compelling that it's difficult to imagine how ...

Have not gotten around to reading that yet, but obtained it, along with The Selfish Gene and A Devil's Chaplain from my kids for Xmas (I was also featured in a book by my elder daughter "The Dad Who Hates Christmas", so they knew what stuff I wanted to read!).

E.O. Wilson's Biophilia seems appropriate for getting someone into science. Its short and engrossing. In highschool Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene was what changed my mind away from wanting to do aerospace engineering or anything else (I had no idea) to solidly wanting to study Biolo ...

... are fairly rare. I think Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" books may fall into that category. I don't put any of Richard Dawkins books in that category since Dawkins' continuing Profession of No Faith fairly illustrates his personal opinion and are unlikely to persuade anyone who isn't ...

... towards non-fiction, since I read not nearly enough of that stuff. I am taking recommendations. The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Science and Nonbelief (Greenwood Guides to Science and Religion) by Taner Edis Apology and Crito of Plato and the Apology and ...

... clear explanation of Darwin's theory. It sparked my interest in evolution. I read On The Origin of Species and Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. It all made sense and the few doubts I had rapidly evaporated.

I profitably read books by Richard Dawkins, such as The Selfish Gene, in high school. Feynman might also be worth looking into to.

My kids got me Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, A Devil's Chaplain, and The God Delusion ... and I'd only asked for the latter!

... it again a few years ago, and I was less impressed. Still, it changed my way of thinking back in the day. I'm reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins now, but another book whose title I can no longer remember introduced me to the idea that natural selection works at the level of ...

... dedicated to go through this, and then finish up with Penrose's bloody twistor theory. The Origin of the Species and The Selfish Gene. Can't evolution be explained in a couple of paragraphs? Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Sorry, but anthropology is just boring. And of ...

... about the 7th grade level, and a silly story with cardboard characters, though the movie actually managed to be worse. Gene by Stel Pavlou badly written, fragmented story, lack of focus, more perfect people (baddies), preposterous premise. Titan by John Varley, the poster book for ...

... income seems to go on books, so I'm not surprised) Pippi Longstocking gives The Blind Watchmaker (hey, I own The Selfish Gene) Swallows and Amazons gives The Devil wears Prada

Just adding the touchstones for the selfish gene and Tao of physics that have been mentioned earlier.