Advantages: Informative, Readable, what more do you want Disadvantages: Can over work his analogies
The title of Dawkin's Blind Watchmaker refers to comments made by the theologian Paley, who argued that an object as precise as a watch could not come into existance by accidental processes, so the complex mechanisms of the natural world could not have c ...
Advantages: Fluent prose makes deep science more approachable Disadvantages: Not for the religious or advocates of intelligent design
...I thought it was timely to reappraise this book in the light of the current debates about intelligent design that are raging through the media and in schools in the USA. Also because it is the 30th anniversary of the publication of Dawkins' best known wor ...
Advantages: Engrossing, thought-provoking and informative read. Disadvantages: Some aspects of the book are difficult to follow.
The Blind Watchmaker is a fabulous book about genes and evolution that provides an explanation for the complexity of humans and other animals. Many believe that such complexity could only have been designed by some higher being because everything within o ...
Advantages: A good way to broaden the mind with respect to genetics Disadvantages: Difficult to understand for the wrong audience
The author of this book, Richard Dawkins, is a professor at Oxford University, so you know that what you are about to read is going to be some pretty neat stuff.
The book examines the gene as the replicator of DNA, and how every gene is selfish in that ...
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins was first published in 1976. Even after 31 years of its first publication, it remains an international best seller. Dawkins, an expert in his field (Evolutionary Biology) explains complex biological ideas in a very inte ...
