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ichard Dawkins'; brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced...

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Charles Darwin';s masterpiece, "On the Origin of Species", shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a...

"В книге "Расплетая радугу" я пытался показать, как крупно повезло нам, живущим, если вспомнить, что огромное большинство людей, которые потенциально, учитывая лотерею возможных комбинаций ДНК, могли бы появиться на свет, никогда не будут рождены. Для тех из нас, кому повезло попасть...

Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another...

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors invoked in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that a goddess swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to...

The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information...

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This is a revised edition with a new afterword by Daniel Dennett. The Extended Phenotype carries on from where The Selfish Gene takes off. It is a fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. Dawkins';s theory is that individual organisms are replicators that have extended...

Книга посвящена современным аспектам теории эволюции.Докинз - убежденный дарвинист, и в свойственным ему легком стиле, но без всяких упрощений, излагает наиболее сложные положения теории Дарвина настолько ясно, что в верности этой теории не остается никаких сомнений.